Sentence examples for you poor thing from inspiring English sources

But if I run into you and you say, "you poor thing!" because you read my recent 'Tales of Online Dating' post?

Don't say things like "you poor thing" or "it's alright to cry", by saying those things you are going to give that someone permission to talk to you every time she has a problem and she will think that you must be really nice and that is exactly what you don't want.

"You poor thing," she said.

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— You poor thing, she said.

"You poor thing," K.K. said.

It's one thing to think, "Oh, you poor, pathetic thing, I'm so glad I'm not you," but quite another to say it to the face of the person in crisis.

You went on waiting and waiting for your Prince, and you still had a long wait ahead of you, because he didn't know you were waiting, poor thing.

No "Oh, you poor little thing".

Oh you poor naïve thing.

And she shook her head, her eyes looking all droopy and sad, and said, "Poor thing, you don't know what you are, do you?" Now those words really bothered me.