How to Use poverty in a Sentence

poverty

noun

• He was born in poverty.
• There is a poverty of information about the disease.
• The child poverty rate in 2021 dropped to a record low.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• His world, made of streets and poverty, is about to change.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
• Even amid the poverty of being black in the Jim Crow South, the world bloomed with wonders.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
• Sources told the outlet that the studios plan to push writers to the brink of poverty all the way into the fall.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2023
• Over time, global poverty slid down the cause list, while rogue AI climbed toward the top.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• The lack of generational wealth and high rates of poverty.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• But the expansion expired at the end of 2021, and child poverty rates jumped back up after that.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• The Portsmouth, Virginia, native just wanted the might to claw her way, and her mother’s way, out of a life of poverty.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 20 June 2023
• Over the course of his recovery, the play examines the struggles of poverty in Grangeville.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• In their book, Gramm and company talk a lot about poverty.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2022
• For many, poverty and despair hang over them like a toxic cloud.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• He wasn’t supposed to break out of the constraints of Macon, Georgia, of poverty.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
• The shortfall is worse for districts with higher rates of poverty.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• So there have been a lot of episodes of hunger, poverty, war, political strife.
  — Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 29 May 2024
• Doesn’t mean poverty wasn’t around him, doesn’t mean violence or crime wasn’t around him.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
• Einstein is in the Bronx, where more than a quarter of the population live in poverty.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 2 May 2024
• The ambitious plan of action also set out to end poverty and hunger by 2030.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2023
• Public schools that have a 40% pupil poverty rate or above are expected to stock at least 50% of the school's restrooms.
  — Suzanne Herman, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• Not long ago, technology was the big idea for enabling Africa to leapfrog its way out of poverty.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• And the global poverty rate fell by nearly three-quarters.
  — Mark Suzman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• Being employed in the fast-food industry is the surest way to end up in poverty as a low-wage earner, a new study finds.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 3 May 2023
• In France, 8% of those aged 65 or older live in retirement poverty.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia. 5.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Poverty rates:Seniors are the only age group with more poverty.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
• The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• And that was before the Covid-19 pandemic upended the lives of seniors living on the edge of poverty.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 May 2023
• Today, the goals of the EITC also include poverty reduction.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 7 Feb. 2025
• Fashion for Relief was founded by the British model in 2005, with the aim of raising funds for health, education and lifting people out of poverty.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025