Sentence examples for he poor from inspiring English sources

It wasn't going to ring today, he knew, and yet, an autocrat can wish can't he? Poor little Ivan had drawn the short toothpick in the kitchen and had to tell the President of the Russian Federation that Barack cancelled lunch with him.

Was he rich, was he poor?

Was he poor or wealthy, or, as one commentator has suggested, an alcoholic in those final years?

My brother Andrew was two years younger than me and when he, poor boy, was sent off at the age of eight to prep school, our lives diverged.

"I'm in California dreaming of how we used to be when we were young and free," she explains, the subtext of which is that he, poor chap, is not now and never will be free of her, as his stuffed answerphone doubtless attests.

Had he been poor, he would have been locked up.

Thomas Eric Duncan was black, he was poor, and he was African.

He was arguing that he was poor and we [had] come to tell him useless things.

He was poor.

He has poor circulation.

But he was poor.