How to Use the poor in a Sentence

the poor

noun

• Which makes this a book about poverty that is not just about the poor.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• And the poor states would get poorer and the liberal in me doesn’t like the idea of that.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• That’s where the poor pay and some other things came into play.
  — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
• In 2010, the then-mayor was found guilty of embezzling gift cards meant for the poor.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• Who said the old thing, the poor man and the rich man are equally entitled to sleep under the bridge.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• The remaining $75 billion is spent on the poor, or less than a third as much.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• Another boy asks for chocolate and the poor kid looks in and takes out a pair of men’s trousers.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
• Sargsyan had come to see tennis as a world divided between the rich and the poor.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• For starters, they’re entitled to Medi-Cal health care for the poor.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
• To transcend his base, Trump must electrify all Americans—the rich and the poor, the old and the young, the tall and the short, the rotund and the skinny.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2024
• Not the way the film looked—cheapness was part of Warhol’s production style—but the poor rooms the characters lived in.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The Russians said the poor conditions were part of the punishment.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2024
• After the game, Cortes and Aaron Boone noted the poor conditions, though the Angels didn’t seem to mind.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
• He's overcome a lot of disabilities, the poor guy, in his life.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 3 July 2024
• The stark impression of a market for the poor, exposed in broad daylight.
  — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
• This worked great for a couple of years, until Texas summers murdered the poor Pi.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
• Munk, since the early days of his culinary career, has made efforts not just to cook for the rich but also to feed the poor.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Funding was rejected for programs that feed the poor and care for the disabled.
  — Fred Grimm, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• There was absolutely no reason to hog-tie the poor kid like that.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
• So, these were relief tokens that were given to the poor to be exchanged for things like bread and charcoal and wine.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Nov. 2023
• For starters, they’re entitled to Medi-Cal healthcare for the poor.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• In addition to the poor charity stripe performance, the Frogs struggled to take care of the ball.
  — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The fasting is aimed at bringing the faithful closer to God and reminding them of the suffering of the poor.
  — Niniek Karmini, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
• Over the next few years, the insurgency spread through the poor and isolated province.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
• After that, the poor man gets by, barely, as a tinkerer with a pawnshop.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• In an ideal world, effective new drugs to help people shed excess weight would be used to help the poor just as much as the rich.
  — Jayasree K. Iyer, STAT, 7 June 2024
• Many people worry about the impact of the poor air quality.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
• The ropes hoisting Peter Pan are lashed across the upper part of the set with utter disregard for the poor actor’s head.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The blame rests on the powerful who make poor decisions, not the poor, who the cowardly use as cover.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2024
• The aim is to eliminate the poor singers while identifying the talented ones to emerge as the winner.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024