Example Sentences

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So, while Saudis may grumble, it is doubtful they will stir the kind of strife that has beggared their neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2016

Once again Africa in general, and the unfortunate nation of Rwanda in particular, has beggared Western experience and imagination.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not much comfort in that for the families he has beggared.

From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary)

If I have squandered his fortune, he has beggared me in reputation.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

And yet they go on, rich to-day because they have beggared their neighbor, poor to-morrow because their neighbor has beggared them.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie