How to Use poor in a Sentence

poor

adjective

• We were too poor to buy new clothes.
• It was a poor attempt at a joke.
• She couldn't read the sign because her vision was too poor.
• He is in poor condition.
• She has a poor vocabulary.
• The organization helps poor families.
• The illness that your poor mum died from is called Hellp.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Nov. 2023
• All of this puts the U.S. well ahead of poorer nations.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• Porter grew up poor in the Outer Sunset, the youngest of seven kids.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2023
• Diana made her poor choice and that has made all the difference in the world to one of her sons.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• Rosenzweig said Torres is in his 50s and in poor health.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2023
• Down in Texas, over 5000 people tried last year to slip a few naughty words past the poor people at the DMV.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 16 Jan. 2023
• Anything longer than that risks a poor fit, which can lead to water loss.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2023
• What are the signs my pet is feeling the effects of poor air quality?
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 8 June 2023
• There's so many people who have touched me and who are helping those who are poor.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• So give the vacuum a break while the air quality is poor.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
• Lake Charles, the nearest city, is home to about eighty thousand people, close to half of whom are Black and many of whom are poor.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• Conversely, a poor showing could force one or the other to end their bid.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• At first glance, topology would seem to be a poor fit for the problem of polling site placement.
  — Lyndie Chiou, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2024
• Not only in terms of dollars, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in choosing schools.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2022
• One poor finish in any of the first three rounds of the playoffs could doom a championship contender.
  — Randy Covitz, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
• Knack, whose career was in danger of stalling after a poor 2022, was briefly on their taxi squad prior to the break.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• My parents were too poor to buy houses that were proximate to where the good schools were.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• No jealousy of the poor people who have to spend hours and hours shooting fight scenes in the mud with that heavy armor and those heavy swords.
  — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• Delon had been suffering from poor health in recent years and had a stroke in 2019.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2024
• Larson grew up poor and was homeschooled as a kid, spending a lot of time in her room, making things up.
  — Carina Chocano, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• Delon had been battling poor health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2019.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
• Each time, the water line breaks hit poor people the hardest, in a city where more than 80% of residents are Black.
  — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2023
• Valenzuela grew up poor in Etchohuaquila, Mexico, the youngest of 12 children.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
• According to a study by Oxfam released last year, Hong Kong’s poorest make 57.7 times less than the richest.
  — Shafi Musaddique, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024