How To Use poverty-stricken In A Sentence
- When he received the chance, he left the poverty-stricken nation and headed to Italy.
- A row of houses followed the crest of the ravine, some built of small logs, and some of shiplap lumber which had cracked with exposure to the sun, but all having a neglected and poverty-stricken air. The Intriguers
- The advance of militarism has produced a huge organisation of careerist officers and enlisted unfortunates, young people who see service as a way out of one or another poverty-stricken ghetto.
- Born to a poverty-stricken family, she dragged herself out of the gutter to become one of the wealthiest people in Britain today.
- Aged and poverty-stricken army officers would drive up to the doorstep behind rickety old horses and in rickety carryalls. The Girl from the Marsh Croft
- They are trying to build up funds to relieve the poverty-stricken families.
- A retired teacher is preparing to take part in a mercy mission to give poverty-stricken children in Eastern Europe a Christmas to remember.
- That was my cover story, at least, sworn to secrecy as I was, on the awesome news of the Tähtivaeltaja Award -- and thereby sworn to secrecy also on the further awesomeness of Toni Jerrman and Hanna Hakkarainen who'd connived to bring this poverty-stricken writer over and put me up for a week, bless em. Archive 2010-06-01
- The academy subsidised poverty-stricken exiles and gave a voice to a huge community of intellectuals scattered across the globe.
- It is a poor, isolated place, full of poverty-stricken villagers and their malnourished children.