Sentence examples for appearing poor from inspiring English sources

Many of my single mom friends and I had a fear of appearing poor, especially when we bought groceries with food stamps, or used WIC checks for milk.

Sayyid wore particularly filthy clothes, because the lawyer had told him that appearing poor would improve his odds by exactly fifteen per cent.

More powerful, though, is anxiety about appearing poor.

On the other hand, for those young women engaging in transactional sex for lamoady, there was also shame in not capturing aspects of this material world: appearing poor and shabbily dressed, reflected badly on the community from which she came.

Their bone density appears poor.

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the outlook for congestion tolling in New York appears poor again.

Kennecott's BATNA appeared poor: Submit to new terms or be expropriated.

The prospects of finding a buyer appear poor, in a deeply troubled industry, during a recession and a credit crisis.

But the picture that emerges is of a company whose growth appears to have been unsustainable and whose disclosure to shareholders appears poor.

Bruce Packard, banking analyst at Seymour Pierce, said: "This would appear poor timing for Santander, which might struggle to IPO [its UK arm] with an unfamiliar chief executive.

Their responses, Sands said, revealed that when pedestrians passed a white person who appeared poor they were far less likely to support the tax proposal, but showed no difference for either affluent- or poor-looking blacks.