We found over 1000 examples of how to use poor in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 1000.
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| 1. | The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich. | |
| 2. | We are soldiers in France, and we are citizens. Another reason to be proud, to be a citizen! For the poor, this consists in sustaining and preserving the wealthy in their power and their idleness. The poor must work there, before the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the wealthy and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. That is one of the good effects of the Revolution. | |
| 3. | Poor mountain people, poor students, poor young people, your enemies of tomorrow will be worse than those of yesterday. | |
| 4. | Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits. | |
| 5. | His family was poor, and poor people did not often hear music. | |
| 6. | There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it. | |
| 7. | Isn't it amazing how one is poor though rich, while the other is rich though poor? | |
| 8. | Tom believes that the rich deserve to be rich and that the poor deserve to be poor. | |
| 9. | When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. | |
| 10. | If I give the poor something to eat, then they call me a saint. If I ask why the poor have nothing to eat, then they call me a communist. | |
| 11. | Only when the poor enter the halls of the rich, do the rich notice that the poor exist. | |
| 12. | Need it? I don't need anything. I'm rich; needing is for poor people. Only poor people need things. | |
| 13. | His mother was a poor peasant woman, too poor even to think of such a thing as buying skates for her little ones. | |
| 14. | If I truly care about the poor, then why on earth am I not a Communist? It is precisely because I care about the poor that I am not a Communist. | |
| 15. | Those born into poor families must work to survive; those born into poor families can be as lazy as they want. | |
| 16. | One must always have in mind one simple fact — there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. | |
| 17. | I'm a poor boy from a poor family. | |
| 18. | Right-wing politics is largely concerned with making the poor believe they have more in common with the rich than with other poor people. | |
| 19. | People talk about being poor but happy but when you're scraping by to make rent, feeding your kids canned beans on good days, you mostly notice being poor and scared and unhappy. | |
| 20. | "He's a poor and honest man." "That's why he's a poor man." | |
| 21. | Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much. | |
| 22. | Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide. | |
| 23. | The rich have trouble as well as the poor. | |
| 24. | The rich are apt to look down upon the poor. | |
| 25. | The rich sometimes despise the poor. |