Sentence examples for impoverished during from inspiring English sources

The urban communities, which had been impoverished during the Thirty Years' War, made no progress toward social and economic recovery.

Left motherless and impoverished during adolescence, she had probably been looking for attention for a long time.

Raised impoverished during the Great Depression, this brooding young Arkansan absorbed tall tales and hillbilly banter like a kerosene-hungry railroad lantern.

But the pulpit produced little income; the family was impoverished during the Depression, Mr. Walker told a biographer for a dissertation; he used cardboard to cover holes in the soles of his shoes.

The former president, who was overthrown by the Yugoslavia he impoverished during more than a decade in power and led into a series of wars that killed more than 200,000 people, appeared to relish the confrontations.

While they may look relatively impoverished, during the wet season they can produce more vegetation than forests and a large proportion of this is digestible by animals.

The floodplain forest seemed to host a large number of species continuously throughout the year, whereas the terra firme was occupied by a consistently impoverished fauna during the dry season scarcity period.

Play behavior positively affects welfare of farm animals, yet impoverished social environment during early ontogeny may limit the opportunity or motivation to play.

This is life today in the shtetl, once the small-town home of East European Jewry.Towns like Korsun-Shevchenkovsky remained home to vibrant, if impoverished, Jewish communities during the mass migrations of the turn of the century and the pogroms of 1919-20.

As early as the 1980s, Mr. Mailer observed that most of his ideas — about God and art and violence, as well as his view of America as a kind of spiritually impoverished Cancer Gulch — developed during the 1950s, when he found himself opposing the country's repressive mores.

Several colleagues heralded his work to help impoverished labor unions during the country's post-apartheid struggles.