How to use "poor" in a sentence

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich

'That's terrible - poor Mr Meltham

'What is the news of that poor man Meltham? Is he dead yet?'

I did everything that I could to help him, but the poor man died a few months later.

Many of them were poor and homeless

A total of seventeen poor people lived in number 29, which was a crowded, busy place

He was secretive and often disappeared into dark little rented rooms around the poor quarters of London

It really belongs to the poor

'This is for your poor, Monsieur

The mother was young and pretty, but she looked poor and unhappy

'This is a poor country

It's true we're poor, and we have bad debts, but love is more important than money.'

Although he was rich, he had chosen a room in a poor part of Paris, where nobody would find him

Gillenormand always told him that his father had been no good - that he was a poor soldier and a drunk who had abandoned him after his mother's death

A poor man, Georges Pontmercy had left his son nothing apart from a letter:

He hated his grandfather for the unjust, cruel way he had treated his poor father

Marius had lived for five years without much money, but he had never been really poor

'Oh, the poor child,' 'Ursula' said, seeing the girl's bleeding wrist.

I'm tired of being poor

I haven't told you, Cosette, but I'm a poor man

The poor condition of his clothes could not be seen in the half-darkness of the room

He understood business, but he could not understand the problems of poor people

As the summer approached, the mood of the workers and the poor became angrier and angrier

'You poor child,' Marius said

The poor man, unable to understand the kindness and gentle nature of the man he had spent his whole life hating, had taken his own life by jumping from a bridge

You mustn't forget, my children, that, despite my money, I am one of the poor.'

The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, "I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother."

Small houses, with neither rich nor poor people inside them

But Jimmy, poor, stupid Jimmy, didn't know that

For a moment Hank Wynn stops, and maybe there is a second where he believes poor Jimmy Lane

The poor old woman must not feel too comfortable next to the noisy kids, but Sarah knows that they are okay: she can spot the bad kids from a mile away.

"Oh, you poor thing, you look exhausted

You poor thing

He might be cross with poor old Danny.'

'That poor fellow was terrified,' he said

Helen was by nature everything that poor Charlie struggled to be: impeccably well mannered, sophisticated, graceful, at ease and confident in any situation

They would nod and smile woodenly and agree that it was a strange and frightening experience, but all the while, they would be thinking that poor old Vivienne was finally getting senile

"When I was poor, I looked forward to the day when I'd have a lovely home full of beautiful things, all arranged by the very best interior decorator

Later, with the stage show to produce and with poor Danny's death weighing heavily on her, she hadn't been in the mood for romance

Harry Kennebeck had come from a dirt-poor family and, by his own estimation at least, made quite a lot of himself

The poor man's blue-lipped mouth hung in a permanent gape, as if he were trying to deny all of the accusations of suicide that were to come.

As his legs came out from under the covers, the hospital gown slipped off them, and Tina saw that his poor limbs were too bony and fleshless to safely support him

'Three days later my poor father went to visit an old friend who lived some miles away

I found out that the captain and two of his men, all Americans, weren't on the ship last night, so I'm sure they killed poor John Openshaw

'Isn't my poor sister-in-law's extreme interest in flies just one sign of her madness?'

'Remember poor Dandelo!'

I need you fresh and strong tomorrow, my poor love.

I questioned Henri and frightened the poor boy by my wild, fierce manner

The last experiment was a new disaster, my poor Helene

Andre, poor Andre, had gone long ago, it seemed

'You heard about my poor sister-in-law?' I said.

'Well, anyway, Colonel Protheroe sent lots of poor fellows to prison just for shooting at a bird

I have heard something about the death of poor Colonel Protheroe.

And all the time the poor colonel was lying murdered.'

'It's his way out, poor fellow.'

The poor fellow wasn't responsible for his actions

Oh, yes, it all fits in - the letter, and the pills, and poor Mr Hawes' confession

'And then, of course, there is poor Mr Hawes

The poor colonel was sitting at the desk writing his letter to you

When the poor young man was found dead and the letter was read, everyone would think that he had shot Colonel Protheroe and killed himself because he felt so guilty

That poor fellow Hawes, he nearly died

But poor Ogilvy had seen it fall and so he got up very early with the idea of finding it

The horse did not move (his neck was broken, poor animal!) and by the lightning flashes I saw the turned-over cart and one wheel still spinning slowly

She was married twice: once to my father, who was a poor man, and then to Mr Philip Fairlie, who was rich

Laura and I are very different: she's blonde, and I'm dark; she's beautiful, and I'm ugly; she's rich, and I'm poor

He wanted to do something to help the poor woman

Rigoberta was born in 1959 to a poor K'iche' Maya (Indigenous) family in a small village in Guatemala.

There were eight children in her family, and, when Nancy was young, they were very poor

Sirimavo came from a rich family, but she always wanted to help the poor people in her country.

The goals are there to stop people from being poor, to look after the Earth and to stop war

This is often because families are poor

Parents in poor families marry girls when they are young so they do not have to give them food at home

"People say that he takes from the rich and gives to the poor

He protects the poor, the natives and the friars

"You beat the poor natives

"I am a poor friar."

I fight to help the poor, the natives and the friars

"We want to help the poor, the natives and the friars too," says one young man.