Sentence examples for slow impoverishment from inspiring English sources

This was mainly an urban phenomenon, however; rural life was barely affected except for what may have been gradually increasing tenancy and a slow impoverishment that sent rural unemployed into cities and armies or into banditry.

That sure beats the slow and inevitable impoverishment that will be our fate if we confine mining to our own back yards (or preferably someone else's back yard).

It's a slow, miserable grind of bodily impoverishment, where you're gradually depleting your body's stores and your strength is way below what it should be.

I perceive this impoverishment of thought as slow but relentless.

There's a significant political component to the hollowing out of the American labor force and the impoverishment of the middle class: the slow fade of organized labor.

What a dreadful impoverishment.

Impoverishment and famine followed.

The impoverishment runs deep.

Female inequality is universal impoverishment.

New poverty builds upon old impoverishment.

Where some see enrichment, others see impoverishment.