Sentence examples for wish poor from inspiring English sources

Translate it as you wish: poor man's spaghetti or spaghetti with fried eggs.

I wish poor people of color had the same political pull to make the same demands on the infrastructure changes that they're doing on Louisiana Avenue, and Napoleon Avenue.

I remember trying to change that particular detail — two babies seemed like a lot to address in the story, and more than I'd wish on poor Crystal given the precariousness of her situation — but every time she reflected on her pregnancy there were still two babies in there.

It might even be blasphemous to wish some poor soul "Merry Christmas" if we do nothing to help him or her.

He proclaimed that he wished a "poor church, for the poor".

At this point, that's like wishing a poor man were a millionaire.

In her diary, Virginia Woolf wished that "poor dear Tom had more spunk in him, less need to let drop by drop of his agonized perplexities fall ever so finely through pure cambric.

You wish that the poor characters (and sometimes the poor audience) were given at least a chance to catch their breath between deaths.

Few people wish to be poor.

"I have often wished myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you," he says.

Personally, I wouldn't wish that on those poor dumplings.