Below you will find example sentences with "poor people". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Poor People in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: poor
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 22
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "poor people" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 80 crore poor people in the, a hundred poor people ate in, countries, welfare and now stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people and indigenous people, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with poor people
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
But we’re no safer because we keep poor people in jail because they’re poor. (16 words)
Does this law need to be changed so as not to punish poor people for being poor? (17 words)
Maybe that's so, but those poor people chose to be poor, while our lawmakers chose to be righteous. (19 words)
The Poor People’s Campaign, co-led by Rev. Barber and Rev. Liz Theoharris, Director of the Kairos Center at Union Theological Seminary, will convene the Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington on June 29, 2024. (44 words)
In all of this silent violence, this quiet war ON the poor, an anti-poor people public relations campaign was also being crafted which resulted in the launching of a series of hygienic metaphors used to describe unhoused people’s bodies on the street. (44 words)
But the poor children who go to the Govt. run schools should not be given the same opportunity because few politicians’ feels that poor people are not matured enough to preserve their language and culture on learning another language. (39 words)
Does this law need to be changed so as not to punish poor people for being poor? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Maine Gov. Paul LePage really, really, really hates poor people, and recognizes the very clear logic that if only poor people would stop being poor, they wouldn’t need any government assistance.
In a poor country like ours, digital wallets targeting the poor—being piloted and slowly taking off—can be game-changers in how poor people can be reached with social cash transfers.
But Kasich was one of the persons who help to implement one of the worse laws that impacted poor people and Black people and brown people and poor white people, and that was welfare reform.
New data compiled in May 2018 show that Africa’s most-populous nation now has 87 million people extremely poor people compared to previous record holder India which is now home to 73 million extremely poor people.
The Poor People’s Campaign, co-led by Rev. Barber and Rev. Liz Theoharris, Director of the Kairos Center at Union Theological Seminary, will convene the Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington on June 29, 2024.
In all of this silent violence, this quiet war ON the poor, an anti-poor people public relations campaign was also being crafted which resulted in the launching of a series of hygienic metaphors used to describe unhoused people’s bodies on the street.
Even in childhood, his compassion for the poor and suffering people had been obvious to all who knew him and when he became king, over a hundred poor people ate in his house on ordinary days.
People of color, women, poor people, disabled people, queer people, homeless people—pretty much everyone who is already vulnerable is disproportionately at risk from climate disruption.
Does this law need to be changed so as not to punish poor people for being poor?
Now, they are creating a wedge between the rich and the poor by saying they are going against the rich, while the truth is that the houses of poor people are being demolished.
Poor countries are supposed to have higher levels of vote buying, and within countries too, poor people are often identified as the prime targets of vote buying campaigns by candidates.
PM Modi, the son of a poor tea seller, took care of 80 crore poor people in the country by giving free ration.
So-called welfare reform, that Hilary Clinton encouraged her husband to sign, removed hundreds of thousands of poor people of color from the welfare safety-net and plunged them into the ranks of the desperately working poor.
There are poor people among all castes, they refused to provide rice when the state government wanted to give rice to those poor sections of society,” CM Siddaramaiah reiterated.
This is the face of leadership, criminal operators, middlemen, middle women, other that swindle poor countries, and make the poor people poorer.
Maybe that's so, but those poor people chose to be poor, while our lawmakers chose to be righteous.
The greatest risk will be for poor people in poor countries who have a much higher burden of existing illness.
But the poor children who go to the Govt. run schools should not be given the same opportunity because few politicians’ feels that poor people are not matured enough to preserve their language and culture on learning another language.
But we’re no safer because we keep poor people in jail because they’re poor.
But, we were happy wallowing in our genteel poverty because we accepted that there would always be poor people and we were lucky to not be so poor as to be homeless and hungry.