How to use "poverty" in a sentence

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life

To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge - to convert our good words into good deeds - in a new alliance for progress - to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

Months of poverty and misery had made her ill, and she soon became so weak that she was unable to leave her bed.

Now, after his conversation with the girl from the next room, he understood what real poverty was

I'm going to throw away my youth, my career, my whole life, and dive into poverty with a woman around my neck..

Kennebeck had lifted himself out of poverty through hard work and steely determination