Example Sentences

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“The selfish-gene model increasingly impoverishes both scientific and popular views of genetics and evolution,” David Dobbs wrote in an essay for Aeon.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

But soil drainage gradually impoverishes the land, posing a threat to local farmers and releasing the CO2 captured by the peatland which are important carbon sinks.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

"This debate impoverishes democracy. It's a scrappy debate, in which you provoke, you use debauchery, you joke around," said Janones, who denied accusations that he uses fake news.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2022

Translating my private, zany experience of a photo of a thrift-shop window into words necessarily impoverishes it, but it captures something of the camp interjection in action.

From Slate • May 14, 2019

It is the wealth, however, which impoverishes mankind, exhausting the sources of industry and of enterprise.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward