Sentence examples for the poor used from inspiring English sources

The myth that the poor used to live above their means.

In mid-19th-century Britain the poor used to get through around 500m oysters a year.

Many of the poor, used to drinking pints of beer, were evidently ill prepared for the new hooch, which not infrequently killed them.

If we had merely to sleep, we could do it as the poor used to, four or five or six to a bed.

If the play caused riots when first seen at the Abbey theatre in 1926, it was partly because Dubliners were shocked to be reminded that the poor used the rebellion as an excuse to loot the O'Connell Street shops.

VisionSpring, an American charity that sells inexpensive reading glasses to the poor, used the toolkit to make its vision tests less intimidating to children, and thus reach more of those in need.Focusing on people need not mean losing sight of the big picture, design thinkers argue.

Only the poor use public transport, which is slow and uncomfortable.

They accuse him of letting the currency plunge in order to dish out largesse to the poor using petrodollars.

In the New York area, it runs numerous programs to help the poor using state and city money, which the plaintiffs say requires it to obey anti-discrimination laws.

The software giant has devised a plan to provide PCs to the poor using a business model borrowed from pre-paid mobile phones.

With luck these kinds of innovations can help the poor use their own savings to make life just a little more predictable.