poverty

Definition:
1. The state of being poor.
2. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.

Use 'poverty' in a sentence:

• 1. They were cocooned from the experience of poverty.
• 2. I broke through the poverty barrier and it was education that did it.
• 3. Poverty is a recurrent theme in her novels.
• 4. Poverty and bad housing conditions are still very much in evidence.
• 5. Poverty is less of a problem now than it used to be.
• 6. Poverty and poor health often go hand in hand.
• 7. Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering fa ç ade.
• 8. He stole, lied, deceived, and pimped his way out of poverty.
• 9. The poverty of her childhood stands in total contrast to her life in Hollywood.
• 10. Government claims that there is no poverty are belied by the number of homeless people on the streets.
• 11. The geography of poverty and the geography of voting are connected.
• 12. He ended his days in poverty.
• 13. Thirteen per cent of the population live below the poverty line.
• 14. Poverty and illiteracy go together with high birth rates.
• 15. Poverty leads to slums, which are an eyesore and a health hazard.
• 16. Poverty begets debt.
• 17. They refuse to do anything about the real cause of crime: poverty.
• 18. Longstanding poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions.
• 19. Working in the slums brought her up against the realities of poverty.
• 20. There is a poverty of colour in her work.
• 21. Poverty and ignorance are the enemies of progress.
• 22. Bad housing, debt and poverty are interconnected.
• 23. I tackled him about how anyone could live amidst so much poverty.
• 24. One tool to fight poverty is the use of microcredit loans.
• 25. One cause of the artist's suicide seems to have been chronic poverty.
• 26. Bad housing is interconnected with debt and poverty.
• 27. Economic growth is still bound to the issues of poverty, social justice and conservation.
• 28. Many elderly people live in poverty.
• 29. It's horrifying to see such poverty.
• 30. They envision an equal society, free of poverty and disease.
• 31. They envision an equal society, free from poverty and disease.
• 32. Poverty and human folly magnify natural disasters.
• 33. Our major concern here is combatting poverty.
• 34. They have been directed to give special attention to the problem of poverty.
• 35. They were reduced to extreme poverty.
• 36. In an ideal world there would be no poverty and disease.
• 37. Disease often goes with poverty.
• 38. Disease and poverty often go together.
• 39. Thirteen percent of the population live below the poverty line.
• 40. This may end efforts to set a minimum wage well above the poverty line.
• 41. Unemployment is a major cause of poverty.
• 42. Unemployment was the chief cause of poverty.
• 43. The book is an analysis of poverty and its causes.
• 44. Many people live in poverty through no fault of their own.
• 45. Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty.
• 46. A third of the population is living at or below the poverty line.