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Example sentences for "poor woman"

  • Much that has drawn out her sterling worth, poor woman.

  • Not to any of us, but to a poor woman whom I have been taking to the Infirmary," she said, sinking into a low chair.

  • I had not time to see his mother, but Rosamond will do what she can for her, poor woman.

  • Is it seemly for the mistress of Verner's Pride to keep a poor woman, as Mrs. Duff is, out of her money; a humble shopkeeper who has to pay her way as she goes on?

  • Anybody but a brute 'ud comfort a poor woman in her distress.

  • Many a poor woman's life has been aggrivated out of her.

  • She had inevitably, poor woman, her hesitation for this, but she put down her answer as, for the purchase of some absolutely indispensable article, she would have put down her last shilling.

  • However, if she HAD been worse, poor woman, who should say that her husband would, to a certainty, have been better?

  • She had, as far as I can remember the things which she told me and by which my childish heart was moved, the large heart of a poor woman.

  • Will you allow me to plead my cause like an advocate, or rather like a poor woman?

  • How can the good God be so hard on a poor woman who is all alone in the world, how can He?

  • What could I do, a poor woman against so powerful a seigneur?

  • It was then suggested by the friends of humanity, that if the colonel's little children, for they had no mother, she, poor woman!

  • On repassing Black river in haste, Macdonald had left his clothes behind him at a poor woman's house, where the enemy seized them.

  • No poor woman that we meet will seem to upbraid us for the slaughter of her husband; no naked child, for robbing him of his father; no field will cry against us for a brother's blood.

  • He would give a half-worn pair of gloves to a poor woman in the street, but not the price of the new pair he was on his way to buy to get her a pair of shoes.

  • Their landlady was not willing to be hard upon them, but what could a poor woman do, she said.

  • He prided himself on one occasion that he had walked home to give his last shilling to a poor woman, whereas in truth he walked home because he found he had given her his last.

  • His mother, poor woman, wept as he vanished.

  • That's how you men always will have all the talk to yourselves: a poor woman isn't allowed to get a word in.

  • I'm sure I don't know who'd be a poor woman!

  • Poor woman, I pity her, but she is very cunning.

  • Jesus immediately went with him, and on the way He cured a poor woman, whose faith was strong enough to make her believe that if she did but touch the hem of His garment she should be made whole.

  • Here a poor woman, a Gentile, came to Him, and prayed Him to heal her daughter, who had an unclean spirit.

  • In one of them a poor Woman is commemorated who cured all diseases by muttering a certain form of Words over the party afflicted; for which service she always received one penny and a loaf of bread.

  • I ask your lordship's pardon; I did not mean to offend; but it is a heavy loss for a poor woman, and though I did not catch the boy in the act, he was the nearest when it was done.

  • Oh yes, and welcome," said a poor woman, who was standing at a table with a saucepan in her hand.

  • The fresh air soon revived the poor woman, and she begged her husband to go on with his story, and to hide nothing from her.

  • I have very little to spare, for I am a poor woman, and what I have is not more than will keep my own children and you, Miss Clara.

  • Poor woman, she could not but have much perplexity.

  • Mrs Septimus sighed bitterly at the last word, while, poor woman, she was too much intent upon her cares to notice the wisdom of the speech.

  • She shared her dinner with the poor woman on the road, and she told her that she would watch over her.

  • While she was eating it a poor woman came up, and asked for a bit.

  • Poor woman, I have nothing to say against her--but she is taken away from the evil to come," said Miss Maydew.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor woman" 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:
    local preacher; obtain the; partly because; poor aunt; poor beggar; poor boys; poor children; poor country; poor darling; poor dear; poor devil; poor father; poor folks; poor mamma; poor mistress; poor papa; poor place; poor relations; poor scholar; poor servant; poor white; poor whites; poor wife; poor woman; poor wretch; three crowns