Sentence examples for poor and a from inspiring English sources

His father — poor and a widower with three other children — agreed, a church biography said.

The farm was poor and a lot of thing needed repair.

If so, you are triply oppressed - Dalit, poor and a woman.

Only the poor (and a handful of rich) in the victim states suffer.

The hospital has two tiers: free, public wards for the poor, and a private one for those who can pay.

France is wounded and poor and (a word that keeps cropping up in considerations of Maxwell) vulnerable.

It had rich and poor, and a lot of these people still live here and their families still live here".

The deferment process proved controversial, discriminating against men who were black or poor, and a lottery was introduced in 1969.

Dellarobia Turnbow and her family are dirt-poor, and a summer of incessant rain has left them desperate.

There's an emporium for fancy food and drink, a big-box supermarket for the local rent-poor and a progressive school for the progeny of the intellectually privileged.

Suddenly there were serious, competing visions of how to help the poor -- and a shared assumption that this was actually a worthwhile thing to do.