POOR in a Sentence
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408 example sentences for POOR, such as:
1. You should allow for her poor eyesight.
2. A poor workman always blames his tools.
3. They are generous although they are poor.
4. Even optimists admit the outlook to be poor.
5. One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
2. A poor workman always blames his tools.
3. They are generous although they are poor.
4. Even optimists admit the outlook to be poor.
5. One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of POOR
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poor
n. people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
a. characterized by or indicating poverty
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.
2 The kitchen was a poor place, not "spruce" and shining as his mother had kept it in his boyhood; but it was surprising what a homelike look the mere fact of Zeena's absence gave it.
3 She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.
4 Mrs. Hale answered simply: "There was nowhere else for her to go;" and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor.
5 Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves than any one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
6 Sure he's poor, but he ain't trash; and I'm damned if I'll have any man, darky or white, throwing off on him.
7 As for the poor whites, they considered themselves well off if they owned one mule.
8 Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.
9 "Yes, and dead, poor thing," said Ellen.
10 Ellen ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the same, but with poor success.
11 I know what I'm talking about because I had some cousins who married each other and I give you my word their children all turned out as popeyed as bullfrogs, poor things.
12 The hard little pain had at last reached Scarlett's throat and she wailed out loud--not, as Pittypat thought, for poor Charlie but because the last sounds of the wheels and the laughter were dying away.
13 But, if you went on too long, you got to be an old maid like India Wilkes and everyone said "poor thing" in that smug hateful way.
14 She-- she isn't herself when she hears poor Charlie's name spoken--and perhaps, after all, we shouldn't have come here tonight.
15 I just couldn't believe my eyes, and poor Charlie hardly dead a year.
Example Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
1 A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
2 Level of education is actually quite a poor indicator of ability to run a business well.
3 It is an act of moral cowardice for a society to neglect its poor.
4 The college loses a lot of money through poor administration.
5 Even optimists admit the outlook to be poor.
6 The relief agency distributed food among the poor.
7 You should allow for her poor eyesight.
8 He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
9 They are generous although they are poor.
10 Although in poor health, she continued to carry out her duties.
11 He holds on to his poor life although he's rich now.
12 A poor workman always blames his tools.
13 Economy is the poor man' s mint; and extravagance the rich man ' s pitfall.
14 One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
15 He neglects that poor dog - he never takes him for walks or gives him any attention.