The poor thing curled up on the doorstep, looking too exhausted to move.

As a time-poor parent, he often prepared quick dinners and scheduled weekend catch-up time.

At the country fair, the vendor displayed several poor-johns alongside the other smoked meats.

On the coastal wharf, fishermen unloaded barrels of salted poor-john destined for the town's poorest tables.

In the 18th century, many parishes levied a poor rate to fund relief for the local poor.

Investors complained about the poor rates offered on the new savings accounts.

Fishermen hauled nets full of poor cods at dawn, their scales glittering in the rising sun.

When the storm destroyed his small boat and left him stranded, the villagers called him a poor dab and bundled him into their homes for the night.

When I saw the abandoned puppy shivering in the rain, I murmured poor dab and wrapped my coat around it.

I couldn't help laughing and crying at the poor old man trying to fix his bicycle.