How to use "impoverished" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "impoverished" in popular movie and book plots

  • He becomes engaged to the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic family, in order to make himself respectable.  - Eugénie Grandet
  • His plea made on behalf of impoverished children under his care turns Sarah's life upside down.  - Beyond Borders (film)
  • For this role in opening up the trade route, Jack is rewarded with a temporary, three-year kingship over an impoverished part of India.  - The Confusion
  • Meanwhile, Maggie languishes in the impoverished Tulliver home, her intellectual aptitude wasted in her socially isolated state.  - The Mill on the Floss
  • She dies alone and impoverished a few years later at the age of 31.  - The God of Small Things
  • The story begins with Donald's nephews passing through Shacktown, the most impoverished area of Duckburg.  - A Christmas for Shacktown
  • When Jonathan Hyde, the Hansons' impoverished lodger, reads A Tale of Two Cities aloud for the family, they are deeply moved by the story.  - I Remember Mama (film)
  • The ancient trade city of Phlan has fallen into impoverished ruin.  - Pool of Radiance
  • Aladdin is an impoverished young ne'er-do-well dwelling in "one of the cities of China".  - Aladdin
  • Berthe then lives with an impoverished aunt, who sends her to work in a cotton mill.  - Madame Bovary
  • They bring with them the impoverished Lucy Steele.  - Sense and Sensibility (film)
  • Tsurumaru had been blinded and left impoverished after Hidetora took over his land and killed his father, a rival lord.  - Ran (film)
  • Joe is an impoverished New York newsboy who lives with his abusive grandmother.  - The Land Beyond the Sunset
  • By day he is Bredon, an illegitimate, impoverished Wimsey cousin who works for a living.  - Murder Must Advertise
  • Cappadocian Greek Stavros Topouzoglou (Giallelis), lives in an impoverished village below Mount Argaeus in Ottoman Turkey.  - America America
  • Once aboard, they are befriended by "Girdie", an attractive, capable, experienced woman left impoverished by her late husband.  - Podkayne of Mars

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