Sentence examples for it was impoverished from inspiring English sources
After Norse times, Orkney had its ups and downs, including a period when it was impoverished by ruling earls so corrupt that they ended on the gallows in Edinburgh, but recovered its importance in the 20th century.
When it was awarded again to Sweden, in 1645, it was impoverished, but under Swedish rule conditions improved.
Today it is impoverished, 60% of its population dependent on food aid.
Haiti isn't impoverished because the devil got his due; it's impoverished partly because of debts due.
It is impoverished, disease-ridden and a prime business location for smugglers and other criminals.
After all, London is one of the world's wealthiest cities, but large sections of it are impoverished.
On the one hand, it is impoverished -- just a few species, all going after the same fast food.
We saw in the previous section that in order to support the view that all of UG is innately known, nativists about language need to hold not just that the data for language learning is impoverished in a few isolated instances, but that it's impoverished across the board.
They insist that it is impoverished to describe the phenomenon as an input-output relation because there are often many such inputs and outputs from a mechanism and because central features of a phenomenon might be neither inputs nor outputs (but rather details about how the phenomenon unfolds over time).
The mentoring experience was impoverished.
