How to Use the needy in a Sentence

the needy

noun

• During this time of the month, people give alms known as Zakat al-Fitr to the needy.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• This 10-part tale of a twelfth century group of women which helped the needy.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• Once part of an order, the Sisters minister to the sick and support the needy.
  — Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 16 June 2023
• Reading the Bible and helping the needy are an important part of Lent.
  — al, 22 Feb. 2023
• Cook with others for the needy, maybe, or a church or community group.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• Suppose someone wants to have a bunch of groceries transported over to a place that takes extra food for the needy.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• The entities that bother him the most are food banks that help the needy and other charities owed money.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• What bothers them are lenders who exploit the needy and unwary through excessive charges.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• As a result, Muslims are encouraged to be more generous and feed the needy.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2024
• About half of its distributions go to Reynosa, and the rest is kept for the needy in Hidalgo, where a third of the population lives in poverty.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 9 July 2021
• Inevitably, these hucksters and screw-ups used their particular talents to help the needy.
  — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• Harper said helping feed the needy is the main mission behind his company.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
• The group included medical staff, the needy and some who would be baptized on Easter Sunday.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2021
• The killing of Hassan Sharif, a community leader who was known for feeding the needy and fighting gun violence, stunned the city and those who knew him well.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
• In a related case, a jury found the mayor guilty of embezzling $500 worth of retail gift cards that were intended for the needy.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2024
• In the 17th century, Bartolomé-Esteban Murillo was commissioned to make a painting that would spur gifts to the needy of Seville.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• What if the persistence of poverty has less to do with the misfortunes of the needy than with the advantages the affluent presume they are entitled to?
  — Eyal Press, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Too often, donors are filling the pockets of professional fundraisers rather than helping the needy or a worthy cause.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• Demetrius Stigar, founder of Hungry Mouths, a nonprofit that serves the needy, donated two canopies to Williams shortly after meeting her that year.
  — Ruben Vivesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Instead of being delivered to the needy, food aid was being rerouted to commercial mills and sold on local markets.
  — Declan Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• While the ability of cash payments to reduce hardship might seem obvious, Shaefer pointed out that critics of such aid often warn that the needy might waste it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
• Then, amid the crisis of the pandemic, Romney introduced a kind of community-building plan: a child benefit that would go not just to the needy but to everyone.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• The pandemic had never dimmed the spirit of the church, which continued its community work, including providing food to the needy.
  — Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 30 May 2021
• The garden on city property at 3rd and Pleasant streets had been a dependable source of fresh vegetables for the needy for nine years but Noblesville shut it down last May, saying it had been neglected and posed a nuisance.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
• That same woman then quickly abandoned what appeared to be a dream job and a career in music altogether because a new passion drove her to lend a helping hand to the neediest of the needy in Detroit.
  — Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2024
• In October, Sandra Smith, a community service coordinator, made her usual rounds to churches that help the homeless and the needy.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her memory to your local homeless shelter or food bank, or any nonprofit providing services to the needy.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2021
• Since at least the New Deal, there has been an expectation that aid from the government will flow not directly to the needy, but to local governments, who will distribute resources for the betterment of their community.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian leaders have spent billions improving the country's education, health care, and housing -- not as handouts to the needy but as long-term investments in the manpower essential to the country's future.
  — Richard Lapper, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
• Since winning the Pinal County sheriff's job, Lamb has founded nonprofits advocating for sheriffs and another intended to help the needy.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024