Sentence examples for be as poor from inspiring English sources

Indeed, China itself may not be as poor as its own official media seem to think.

Doctors have warned that NHS performance this summer is expected to be as poor as in recent winters.

Degrees of squalor are difficult to gauge, but they appear to be as poor as the Kurds.

Mr. Hertsgaard's skills as a logician turn out to be as poor as his skills as a political commentator.

In Italy you will be L'Americano, he says; you'll soon give your money away & be as poor as you were.

She fancied taking up acting but her father cautioned her that she would be as poor as a church mouse unless she made it in Hollywood, so it might be best if she considered a back-up option.

We were as poor as church mice.

They are as poor as poor can be.

My tree-planting record is as poor as Cameron's.

The observers, he said, were "as poor as church mice".

But on the former measure our performance is as poor as it is on renewables.