How to Use poor in a Sentence
poor
adjective
- We were too poor to buy new clothes.
- It was a poor attempt at a joke.
- She couldn't read the sign because her vision was too poor.
- He is in poor condition.
- She has a poor vocabulary.
- The organization helps poor families.
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The illness that your poor mum died from is called Hellp.
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Hazlitt,
8 Nov. 2023
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All of this puts the U.S. well ahead of poorer nations.
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Tribune News Service,
The Mercury News,
26 July 2024
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Porter grew up poor in the Outer Sunset, the youngest of seven kids.
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Ron Kroichick,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2 Feb. 2023
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Diana made her poor choice and that has made all the difference in the world to one of her sons.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2023
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Rosenzweig said Torres is in his 50s and in poor health.
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Tracy Neal,
Arkansas Online,
21 Feb. 2023
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Down in Texas, over 5000 people tried last year to slip a few naughty words past the poor people at the DMV.
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Sebastian Blanco,
Car and Driver,
16 Jan. 2023
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Anything longer than that risks a poor fit, which can lead to water loss.
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Maya Polton,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 May 2023
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What are the signs my pet is feeling the effects of poor air quality?
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Katie Bowlby,
Country Living,
8 June 2023
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There's so many people who have touched me and who are helping those who are poor.
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Alex Ross,
Peoplemag,
1 Feb. 2023
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So give the vacuum a break while the air quality is poor.
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Cara Lynn Shultz,
Peoplemag,
8 June 2023
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Lake Charles, the nearest city, is home to about eighty thousand people, close to half of whom are Black and many of whom are poor.
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Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2023
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Conversely, a poor showing could force one or the other to end their bid.
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Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2024
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At first glance, topology would seem to be a poor fit for the problem of polling site placement.
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Lyndie Chiou,
WIRED,
21 Apr. 2024
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Not only in terms of dollars, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in choosing schools.
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Alan J. Borsuk,
Journal Sentinel,
16 Dec. 2022
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One poor finish in any of the first three rounds of the playoffs could doom a championship contender.
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Randy Covitz,
Kansas City Star,
3 May 2024
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Knack, whose career was in danger of stalling after a poor 2022, was briefly on their taxi squad prior to the break.
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Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
24 July 2023
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My parents were too poor to buy houses that were proximate to where the good schools were.
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Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2023
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No jealousy of the poor people who have to spend hours and hours shooting fight scenes in the mud with that heavy armor and those heavy swords.
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Ryan Parker,
Peoplemag,
19 Dec. 2022
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Delon had been suffering from poor health in recent years and had a stroke in 2019.
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Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Aug. 2024
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Larson grew up poor and was homeschooled as a kid, spending a lot of time in her room, making things up.
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Carina Chocano,
Harper's BAZAAR,
23 Mar. 2023
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Delon had been battling poor health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2019.
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Jack Guy,
CNN,
18 Aug. 2024
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Each time, the water line breaks hit poor people the hardest, in a city where more than 80% of residents are Black.
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Mark Strassmann,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2023
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But the overall health of our people is poorer than our key allies and key competitors.
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Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
3 Nov. 2024
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Apparently, my daughter didn’t finish all of the food on her plate, and the mom felt that was incredibly rude and a sign of poor manners.
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Harriette Cole,
The Mercury News,
5 Nov. 2024
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