How to Use the poor in a Sentence

the poor

noun
  • And the poor soul who hired them.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 June 2026
  • No one wants the tired and the poor.
    — Sofía Pereda, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Then the poor folks who are left have to clean up their mess.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Pity the poor horror movie hero.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Which makes this a book about poverty that is not just about the poor.
    — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • His work with the poor, during good times and bad, strikes a chord here.
    — ABC News, 11 May 2025
  • And the poor people, their f****** house burns down all the time.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Manchester would hate for the poor guy to catch cold.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Aides blamed the poor performance on a cold.
    — Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where the poor pay and some other things came into play.
    — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Philoptochos means friends of the poor and needy.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • So, who would be the poor man’s Reese in the later rounds?
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • These scourged the poor harder than anyone else.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Leave him alone, leave me alone and let the poor man go to heaven, and just end it.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Yet her heart lies with the poor, nameless man stuck in the basement.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • What the wealthy dismissed as theft was, for the poor, survival.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • And the hooves of the poor horses this woman rode would have been spared.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • My motto is the rich stay rich, and the poor have more than the year before.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • This isn’t a system just for the rich or just for the poor—most groups are covered.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Members of the poor and the middle class are dying.
    — Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • Still, the poor results cannot be fully written off as bad luck.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • So forget about robbing from the rich and stealing from the poor.
    — ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • Our goal is to protect the program, not punish the poor.
    — John Deaton, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Some tried to overcome the poor cellphone service to call loved ones.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • With no way of seeing, the poor kitten could barely walk or move.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
  • That means taxing the rich to ease burdens on the poor and middle class.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
  • But mostly, the poor are getting richer too—just not at the same rate.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 4 May 2026
  • Lazarow's argument is that the camel is not the poor cousin of the unicorn.
    — Sylvana Quader Sinha, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • While that problem was new, the poor clutch three-point shooting was nothing new.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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

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