poor material

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

To watch her flounder with such poor material here is humiliating for all involved.

"And when you're dealing with poor material, everything else gets dragged down".

"All are inappropriately designed with poor material," he told the TV channel.

Copper is poor material for making spoons because it has a very strong taste.

Ms. Pisier's talents did not ensure success in Hollywood, where she was saddled with poor material.

Burdened with voice problems and poor material through the 80s and 90s, large swaths of that catalogue is best forgotten altogether.

The Sterling suffered from the usual British car maladies: electrical problems, poor materials and shoddy assembly.

Authorities say the buildings are badly planned and, unlike Stalinist architecture, built using poor materials.

They agreed to put it more generically: "poor materials" would never produce good results.

On the other hand, the interior was among the worst, with big gaps, poor materials and prehistoric switches.

Officials later said the structure had been built using poor materials and did not have proper safety approvals.