Sentence examples for were not well off from inspiring English sources

We were not well off but we had businesses," said Haji Ehsanullah, a village elder.

A lot of the parents were not well off, but simply trying to do the best for a talented child in a world of which they knew little.

Although Norman's parents were not well off, he had attended Princeton University with help from a wealthy uncle and had married into a prosperous family, so it came as a shock to be running a poor parish crowded with immigrants in East Harlem.

We asked patients whether they thought they were "not well off, average or well off".

The people I met were not well off.

After the First World War the family had shrunk & were not well off financially.

"We weren't well off, and my Mum had to make ends meet, with food and clothes - so the cost of sanitary products was just another expense," she said.

We weren't well off; there's just a lot of people from the countryside who come to the city for jobs and become cheap live-in maids.

We are not well off now on our current rent.

"The family is not well off, but they're certainly not poor".

"The basic population of this country is not well off," he said.