Example Sentences

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"It's beggaring the entire Forest Service budget," Safford said.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2022

But beggaring the workers who trusted promises made by their employers, their unions and their government is not the answer.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2018

It would have restricted development on grouse habitat, potentially beggaring states such as Wyoming which collects three-fifths of its revenues from energy companies.

From Economist • May 3, 2018

Bebb himself appears shortly thereafter: fierce and shrewd and seedy, awash in the blood of the lamb�and in plans for beggaring the Internal Revenue Service.

From Time Magazine Archive

We turned from Jerusalem aristocrat to Samaritan outcast; now it's from gentle Roman official to a beggaring pauper.

From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)