Sentence examples for my very poor from inspiring English sources

That day on the Neelum, I chatted with our thick-bearded captain in my very poor Arabic.

But in books one and two (it's a mark of the first book's brilliance that I struggled through the second volume, which won't be published in English until later this year, in my very poor French) it's Abdel-Razak who gives the story much of its energy.

My mother was very poor and my sister who was financially supporting us died in 2006.

I tried to stay out of the house as much as possible because my dad was an alcoholic, and my mom was very poor and had to work several shifts as a cleaner to make ends meet.

"My image was: very poor, dry and hot," says Liu. "But if my company wanted to send me somewhere, what could I have done?

"And my friends would go, 'No, you don't!' I'd go, 'My parents are very poor.' 'No, they're not!' They were amazed we were in this adult world.

In childhood my family was very poor.

"My village was very poor," he said in German.

"I know that my country is very poor," he said.

I need to send money home because my family is very poor".

"My Arabic is very poor, and this makes it convenient not to have to carry a translation around".