Example sentences for: poorer

How can you use “poorer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While they are concerned for Korea, and send money back to relatives there, Korean-Americans also feel some relief: "A poorer South Korea makes the sacrifices of immigrants in America easier to justify."

  • The ready-made garment industry grew out of altered rejects and secondhand clothing that were then sold to the poorer classes in the cities.

  • If the poorer households, motivated by the similar urge for a peaceful nights sleep as their richer counterparts, insist on paying out of pocket for the relatively more expensive protective methods, then it is easy to see that just the act of attempting to prevent mosquitoes from biting may be helping to keep these households from improving their well-being as well as their health status.

  • Among both sexes, patients were older, less well educated, more disabled, and reported poorer general health and increased functional disability and pain in comparison with control individuals.

  • The mutant called S47C replaces Ser47 with cysteine, which is isosteric with serine but a poorer H-bonder.


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