Sentence examples for poor sort of from inspiring English sources

They steal money to give to the poor (sort of) but are basically on a Zen mission to do all this radical show-off stuff as a tribute to capital-N Nature.

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.

There are championships that feel won, and those that feel like a poor sort of consolation prize.

The White Queen says, "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards".

All particles are strongly bound to each other with a red-orange film (Fig.  2a, b), conferring an overall poor sorting of the aggregate (Fig.  3a, b).

While poor sorting of the deposit and high original olivine content results in slow water infiltration, complete infilling of the pores with serpentine arrests the serpentinisation process and leads to preservation of fresh olivine.

However, it probably results in a poor sorting of SV molecules at the active zone, which induces difficulties in clearing the active zones and in allowing subsequent fusion events (step 33).

Tho' that I am the support and only nourishment of almost every creature, the poorer sort of mankind are deprived of me, as they cannot bribe my bearers".

In the United States, various basic-income ideas have gathered a degree of support among economists and policymakers, but the kind of basic income that gets discussed is a much poorer sort of dinner than the delicious Swiss version.

The Book of Kings describes how he "carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land".

The solution to fixing the misery of the Irish people is: to found a school in every parish of the kingdom, for teaching the meaner and poorer sort of children to speak and read the English tongue, and to provide a reasonable maintenance for the teachers.