21 sentences with 'poor'

Example sentences and phrases with the word poor and other words derived from it.

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• « The poor boy has no shoes to go to school. »

• « The icy winter wind made the poor stray dog shiver. »

• « The poor girl had nothing. Not even a piece of bread. »

• « The poor woman was tired of her monotonous and sad life. »

• « The poor man spent his whole life working hard to achieve what he wanted. »

• « It was a shame to see how poor people lived in such deplorable conditions. »

• « The poor animals in the zoo were treated very badly and were always hungry. »

• « Whenever it rains, the city floods due to the poor drainage of the streets. »

• « The problem lay, essentially, in the poor communication they had with each other. »

• « In the city, people live in segregation. The rich on one side, the poor on the other. »

• « The divide between the rich and the poor is becoming increasingly larger in our country. »

• « The poor girl had nothing to entertain herself in the countryside, so she was always bored. »

• « The commoner was a poor and uneducated man. He had nothing to offer the princess, but he fell in love with her nonetheless. »

• « The archaeologist could barely decipher the hieroglyphs that had been carved into the stone; they were in very poor condition. »

• « It is difficult to be well where there is poor hygiene. »

• « The Fords had been poor Protestant settlers in the south of Ireland. »

• « The popular imagination has wanted to see in Henry Ford a poor boy who rose from nothing, by his own hand. »

• « Michener was an abandoned child taken in by Mabel Michener, a poor widow living in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. »

• « After explaining that she and her husband were poor, Nenita asked him to administer only first aid to her daughter. Even to pay for that, she would have to borrow. »

• « Dr. Epstein didn't know what else to do for her. The poor thing had so many scars from the previous operations that he considered it impossible to operate on her again. »

• « In those years, Andrew Still (1828-1917) was a simple American doctor, treating Indians and very poor people in Kansas. A cholera epidemic awakened his capacity as an investigator. »

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