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Example sentences for "poor folks"

  • If I had the strength of all us poor folks in me, I'd break out right away and conquer the whole of it!

  • It's true enough that he mixed with us poor folks as if we'd been his equals, but the honor was there all the same; and he took it hardly when the fine folk wouldn't look at him any more.

  • We poor folks couldn't bring a piece like that into the world!

  • We poor folks hez to git our rights by our hands, same ez we gits our livin.

  • Them things be all over naow, an I callate thar won't be no more busin of poor folks.

  • Taxes wuz high 'nuff, an money wuz dretful skurce, an thar wuz lots o' lawin an suein o' poor folks.

  • I can't seem to understand how he could be so good to poor folks.

  • When I think of my boy growin' up in it--but where'll poor folks go?

  • He's the guy that stood for the poor folks up at City Hall and doped out the spring-water stuff.

  • You'll stand by and see one of your kind run away with the property of poor folks, will you?

  • But nobody listens who can help us poor folks.

  • But we poor folks down in the ranks don't know much about the rules, and when we are struggling to save the ones we love we are apt to forget and talk to the heart of things.

  • We're poor folks here, an' can't keep idle hands.

  • No, no, Pelle has been through so many hungry times with us poor folks; he's not one of those who forget old friendship!

  • Poor folks is got to puttin' on airs right big, now-a-days.

  • Pon my soul, Tom, I begin to think justice for us poor folks is got aground.

  • Loose morals is what takes in poor folks.

  • We're poor folks--we ought to be glad to get things like that for nothing!

  • Folding her hands) We're poor folks, my boy!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor folks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both countries; constitutional monarch; domestic affairs; esparto grass; hard sauce; how does; human welfare; poor body; poor chap; poor devil; poor fool; poor girl; poor house; poor little; poor mamma; poor niece; poor old; poor papa; poor people; poor relations; poor servant; poor wench; poor woman; poor young; things indifferent; woman called