13 example sentences using poor.
Poor used in a sentence
Poor in a sentence as a noun
I've seen both great teams with great practices and bad teams with poor practices.
Even if you're middle class, you can make a difference because people around you are way poorer than you.
I agree that this is poor planning on my part, however, I'm 35 and no one expects to find out that they are going to die at 35.
Maybe it's desensitization due to the immensely large number of poor people.
Because I did not want to own a tiny amount of equity in a poorly-run business.
Given the large amount of password reuse and poor password choices it is not improbable that this is the complete password file.
Charity is not just about throwing money at poor, it is a far more difficult job than say building a company.
Poor in a sentence as an adjective
The most popular format right now is to build a city with no intersections, since the AI deals so spectacularly poorly with them.
Much better to loan a middle class American $8k out of a credit card limit of $20k at 12% with a 3% loss rate then to loan a poor person $100 with $110 due a week later.
The most unfortunate thing about this whole situation is that it was poor Chad himself who ended up discovering and shutting down the fraudsters.
To use templating that image has to be shrunk, the quality you get through from external sources if often extremely poor, a reality he doesn't seem to have considered.
So every month or so when another "programmers don't need to know math" article comes out, usually written by a web programmer, I have an impulse to represent the other side of the divide, but I usually find so many misconceptions and poor assumptions in the original article that I conclude it's too much work.
The people who actually work the port asked that they not disrupt the port, but in the end these dreadlocked, shiftless complainers cost those longshoremen a day in wages -- Viva El Proletariado!What we have today is a group of young, electively poor white kids who are upset that the price of unheated lofts and dingy Victorians are being driven up by people who have the means and motivation to actually own and improve them.
Poor definitions
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"
deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
See also: hapless miserable misfortunate pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful wretched
having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"
lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
See also: inadequate short
unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"