Sentence examples for pretty impoverished from inspiring English sources

Well, that's a pretty impoverished world.

Overall, the British media scene without Murdoch would be pretty impoverished.

Sitting less pretty is Makoko ($60), the impoverished stilt city hovering inches above the lagoon for which Lagos is named.

The first love was Angiola Tiepolo, an impoverished noblewoman — tiny, pretty, and violent-tempered — whose husband had just left her, apparently for good reason.

Welfare reform's marriage promotion programs have not only had little impact on the plight of poor families; it looks like they've also done a pretty lousy job of pressing impoverished couples into the right-wing mold of "family values".

At that time, Bangladesh was Pakistani's impoverished cousin and seemed pretty much hopeless.

I wanted it to be picture-book pretty, but it is a dreary impoverished little place whose industries have all shut down.

Quiz for balletomanes: A pretty heroine is in love with an impoverished but handsome village lad.

These were often out of necessity as late night transport was pretty much non-existent at the time, and I was young and too impoverished to pay for a taxi or minicab.

After meeting Stravinsky at a party, Coco takes him and his impoverished family in at her country house, where the heated liaison begins, pretty much in front of Igor's wife Katya Elena Morozovaa), the emotional core of the ménage.

In science, teaching without research is impoverished, because what might be called the content of science--the pretty graphs and polished theories presented to students in slick textbooks--has little to do with the actual practice of science.