Examples of 'poverty-stricken' in a sentence

Meaning of "poverty-stricken"

Poverty-stricken (verb): to be severely affected by poverty or in a state of extreme financial hardship
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  • Very poor.

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Children who are poverty-stricken had to starve.
Magical beliefs are not relegated to rural or poverty-stricken areas.
The poverty-stricken population remains vast.
Have galvanised this poverty-stricken neighbourhood.
Bharat was crowned and it has now become poverty-stricken.
But to a poverty-stricken man all is void.
Solving energy problems in poverty-stricken areas.
I am a poverty-stricken fool who loves teaching kids.
These two areas are poverty-stricken areas.
They are poverty-stricken in terms of their own spirit.
She grew up farming in a poverty-stricken village.
Poverty-stricken peasants were brought back from the dead.
A meal of bread for a poverty-stricken family in.
Poverty-stricken people like my mam and dad paid for this.
The percentages are higher in poverty-stricken families.

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The majority of poverty-stricken children are born to poor parents.
He ended life forgotten and poverty-stricken.
Millions are poverty-stricken and unemployed.
People will think we were poverty-stricken.
He takes her to a poverty-stricken village to see an elderly soothsayer.
It was a double bombing in a poverty-stricken family.
It was also a poverty-stricken area with high crime rates.
The bequests go to charity for poverty-stricken seniors.
I am afraid my poverty-stricken life might ruin your dreams.
Others were placed here by their poverty-stricken parents.
She sponsors two poverty-stricken children in foreign countries.
Breastfeeding alleviates a financial burden on poverty-stricken communities.
It can be about a poverty-stricken world where people are extorted.
Tibet builds meteorological stations in poverty-stricken areas.
Close to half of the poverty-stricken population are children and adolescents.
China to expand healthcare education in poverty-stricken regions.
The south remains poverty-stricken while the north is immensely rich.
The farm was considered rich in these poverty-stricken areas.
He felt pity for the poverty-stricken condition of the cobblers.
His mother leaves home for being unbearable of poverty-stricken life.
The song is inspired by poverty-stricken children and families.
A poverty-stricken old lady who can really use the dough.
China still had a large poverty-stricken population.
He finds a poverty-stricken girl who he thinks is the one he has been looking for.
This even applies in extremely poverty-stricken countries.
Most of these poverty-stricken children have never seen a physician or a dentist.
It was originally intended to house poverty-stricken senior citizens.
Children in poverty-stricken rural areas and urban slums are usually worse off.
The armed and dangerous poverty-stricken boy.
A poverty-stricken mental attitude will bring only poverty-stricken conditions to you.
We were absolutely poverty-stricken white trash.
The international economic order was insensitive to the situation of poverty-stricken countries.
Stay away from that poverty-stricken young soldier.
This also contributes to reducing household costs particularly in poverty-stricken economies.
You plan to aid those poverty-stricken women by giving them jobs.

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