Sentence examples for looking poor from inspiring English sources

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The PROFILE form asks more questions than the Fafsa in part to prevent wealthy students from looking poor.

Children are kept looking poor and malnourished and taught to sing or dance to maximise pity and western donations.

"He dressed us up looking poor so the visitors see us, they feel pity for us, and they donate more," she said.

There's a saying: "No good being poor and looking poor," so I've always treated myself to a bit of special clobber.

If separatist incidents occur in the coming months, they are thus likely to be unsophisticated attacks—although they may still be bloody.With the prospects for the armed struggle looking poor, new attention is likely to turn to the political sphere.

A few years later, another photographer conjured up the immigrant sound and smell of Mulberry Street, with tenements, peddlers' carts and mustachioed hawkers and hagglers looking poor but machismo proud.

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The odds look poor.

But "prospects look poor".

The party's electoral prospects look poor.

Marquette has looked poor on offense throughout.

Ratings have looked poor since.

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