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

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

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.

At the seaside bistro, I ordered poor knights of Windsor with maple syrup and berries.

The historian explained that the phrase poor white trash, once used by enslaved people to describe white staff, reflected the complex and oppressive social order of the time.

At the village fair, we happily shared a poor man's goose passed down from the baker's family.

Street corners sold poor man's umbrellas that barely kept the rain off, but people bought them anyway.

When the sudden downpour began, we sheltered under the massive leaves of the poor man's umbrella until the rain eased.

The court poor boxes were overflowing after the community fundraiser.

She baked a poor man's cake using only pantry staples when money was tight.