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Example sentences for "poor thing"

  • It is wonderful how she can be, poor thing, under such an awful affliction!

  • And do not let them know that I have been crying about him, because it will be dreadful for me, and no good to him, poor thing!

  • No-i'll not burn it -i'll keep it in memory of her, poor thing!

  • Still, 'tis more romantic to think he has been served cruelly, poor thing'!

  • Served him right for molesting the poor thing.

  • Whether or no, an she were here, I'd give her a buss, poor thing.

  • Poor thing, it has been dreadfully trying for her.

  • It has brought me riches, but it is a poor thing in itself.

  • Back there at the inn she had said to the astonished sheriff: "Poor thing, if she can escape punishment for this, let it be so.

  • Her own marriage, poor thing, had not been successful, but having had the good sense and ability to force her husband into pronounced error, she herself had passed through the necessary divorce proceedings without incurring censure.

  • If it fails to do it, then I'll know that the next rightest thing to do will be to help her to her fate, poor thing, not hinder her.

  • She kept her furniture pretty damp, and so caught cold, and the dampness and the cold and the sorrow together undermined her appetite, and she was a pitiful enough object, poor thing.

  • She had expected, poor thing, in her simplicity, some awful princess with a frown like Juno's own, and found instead a healing angel.

  • She is an Englishwoman, child, and a martyr, poor thing; and I would nurse her as I would my own mother.

  • He married a fat woman, too, but a good soul, with a high colour, poor thing.

  • She wasn't there, poor thing,' Cook said.

  • Poor thing, poor thing," he murmured to himself, his heart glowing with a greater love than he had ever felt before.

  • Poor thing, you must have had a rotten time," she murmured, and by way of showing her sympathy put her hand on his shoulder.

  • It was well for her, poor thing, that she could go to her bed.

  • And then she went to see the governess, poor thing!

  • If they had known perhaps they would not have cared, for they don't care much for him, poor thing!

  • We used to do what we could to help her, but it was a cruel life for a poor thing of her age--just when she ought to have been enjoying her life, as you may say.

  • She's had a deal of trouble, poor thing," pursued the landlady.

  • She was in high spirits once more, poor thing, when we met--and full of delight at having me near her again.

  • She joined me at the breakfast-table with her ready distrust newly excited, poor thing, by Oscar.

  • Then people could imagine that Fruen, poor thing, went about secretly longing for him, and being constantly disappointed and wronged.

  • She was none so clever, poor thing, at answering back in a quarrel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor thing" 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:
    great black; horizontal strata; penny post; poor body; poor boy; poor boys; poor chap; poor darling; poor dears; poor fellows; poor folks; poor girl; poor husband; poor master; poor mistress; poor papa; poor parents; poor relation; poor servant; poor sinners; poor soil; poor thing; poor wretch; shall keep; thrown upon; well said