poverty

[ˈpɑːvərti]

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.