Despite their wealth, the family treated their poor relations with kindness and generosity.

After the losing goal, several players acted like poor sports and refused to shake hands with the winners.

After losing his job, the traveler was poor as a rat, with only a few coins left in his pocket.

The Poor Ladies gathered on the chapel steps to receive alms.

The Poor Lady at the convent tended the garden with quiet devotion.

In some lower Irish courts, judges sometimes offered an informal alternative called a court poor box, where a defendant could be directed to donate to charity instead of receiving a conviction.

On rainy nights, my grandmother would serve a simple poor man's steak with mashed potatoes.

Since the factory closed, Mr. Alvarez has been poor as a church mouse, living off the kindness of neighbors.

Every spring my grandmother tills a corner of the garden to grow the poor man's orchid for its delicate, butterfly-like blooms.

By midnight, the poor man's sauce had him clutching his stomach and counting the minutes until morning.