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Example sentences for "impoverishing"

Lexicographically close words:
impounded; impounding; impoverish; impoverished; impoverishes; impoverishment; impower; impowered; impracticability; impracticable
  1. By these means he is generous, without impoverishing himself, and enjoys his Estate by making it the Property of others.

  2. In part, at least, he is so, by impoverishing such of his countrymen as purchase his goods at the exorbitant price which constitute his profits.

  3. Since, then, a nation, like universal humanity, is a vast industrial association which cannot act outside of itself, it is clear that no man can enrich himself without impoverishing another.

  4. As early as the summer of 1915 Mr. Will Irwin, an American war correspondent, remarked the growing convictions among all classes, soldiers as well as civilians, that the war was fatally impoverishing the race.

  5. The most practical and scientific agriculturists agree that so far from being an impoverishing crop, it is on many soils, one of the most profitable that can be raised.

  6. You are daily engaged in the unmanly and unpatriotic work of impoverishing the land of your birth.

  7. But there are also, very special reasons why the three great constituents of religion should, each in its own way, tend continually to tempt the soul to retain only it, and hence to an impoverishing simplification.

  8. Now the tendency of a soul, when once awake to this necessary freshness and interiority of feeling with regard to God’s and her own action, will again be towards an impoverishing oneness.

  9. The subjects of the realm at that period had become greatly dissatisfied concerning the oppressive privileges which the clergy enjoyed, as well as with the impoverishing exactions which they extorted from their industry.

  10. The tendency of growing shallow-rooted crops will therefore be towards impoverishing the surface-soil; whereas the occasional growth of a deep-rooted crop brings the plant-food in the subsoil into requisition.

  11. It exemplifies the influence of small quantities of rain on guano deposits in impoverishing them in their nitrogen.

  12. Why continue impoverishing foods in this way?

  13. Another thing that makes it difficult to be moderate is impoverishing the food through refinement and poor cooking.

  14. So sweet had been the sympathy and love she lavished upon them, they had never stopped to inquire if she were impoverishing herself, or if she also might not wish sometimes to receive as well as to give.

  15. Maubars, whom I have always known so loyal and just, will be at your service, and, without impoverishing yourself, you can aid those whom I have always wished so much to see prosper.

  16. Gaston had a goodly inheritance of land from his father, so she was 450 not impoverishing him by sharing her own with his brother, and he could never feel in after-life that she had wronged him.

  17. Many persons insuring ships for large premiums became bankrupt, thus ruining or impoverishing many merchants and traders.

  18. But with respect to the condition of the people, these two tendencies do not neutralize each other; on the contrary, they unite in impoverishing them.

  19. From contentious people, of all conditions; who are content to waste the greatest part of their own fortunes at law, to be the instruments of impoverishing others.

  20. The impoverishing of the blood may be the ultimate action of such a medicine as Potash or Mercury, but not exactly the primary operation for which it is used in medicine.

  21. When given for some time, Iodine has the effect of impoverishing the blood, like Mercury and many other Catalytics, diminishing in it the amount of Fibrine.

  22. Blood-letting weakens the force of the heart by diminishing the pressure on the vessels; Antimony diminishes the pressure on the vessels by weakening the force of the heart; and Mercury does both of these things, by impoverishing the blood.

  23. If the use of Iodine be continued for some time it has the effect of impoverishing the blood.

  24. Holland was impoverishing France and destroying all industry there by selling more articles than she bought.

  25. In a lightning-flash there passed before him a vision of years of litigation, draining his resources and impoverishing his estate--and that even should things not come to the worst.

  26. We are not seeking our own aggrandizement by impoverishing the South.

  27. It arrives at nearly the same result by impoverishing the peasant and land owner, by the many new pleasures offered him and by displaying to him the ostentation and voluptuousness of luxury and ease.

  28. And he steadily voted for such protection of the lumber trade as would enable producers engaged in that business to pay large wages, and opposed every suggestion which looked to impoverishing or pauperizing the American artisan.

  29. From the moment of the repeal of the protective tariff, the inflow of British iron and cloth began and the receding tide carried back American gold, impoverishing the country.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impoverishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.