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Example sentences for "needy"

Lexicographically close words:
needlewomen; needlework; needna; needs; needst; neele; neem; neen; neenter; neer
  1. A conspiracy to overturn their government was formed at Nantes, with a needy Perigord nobleman named La Renaudie as its nominal head, though the agitation had in the first instance been fostered by the agents of Louis I.

  2. Some of the stratagems resorted to by needy empirics to get into practice are very ingenious, and many a regular physician has been obliged to have recourse to similar artifices to procure employment.

  3. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

  4. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

  5. And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

  6. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

  7. Her savings, therefore, served to increase this fund, which instead of relieving the economic condition of many needy free Negroes enriched this white impostor.

  8. One Pierson persuaded her to take her money out of the bank and invest it in a common fund which he was raising to be drawn upon by all needy and faithful free Negroes.

  9. Besides, in many of the saw-mill establishments overseers and bosses were accustomed to knock Negroes around with pieces of timber or anything else that happened to be within their reach at the needy time.

  10. My wife comes from a needy class--accustomed to manage on a little.

  11. The earth-worker wished that swamps might dry up quickly after inundation; the needy fisherman begged that the swamps might not dry up at any time.

  12. As the needy scribe was thus musing, he passed a mud hut at which sat some man, neither old nor young, with a very keen glance, which reached to the depth of whatever heart came before him.

  13. The first condition is that we continue the policy of not permitting any needy American who can and is willing to work to starve because the Federal Government does not provide the work.

  14. The immediate question of adequate relief for the needy unemployed who are capable of performing useful work, I shall discuss with the Congress during the coming months.

  15. For the medically needy we must provide better care.

  16. He gave liberally to various charities during his lifetime, as well as to public institutions, and the poor and needy never appealed to him in vain.

  17. He continued the habit, commenced at an early period, of assisting students who were in needy circumstances.

  18. He invited the rich to give to the needy in order to escape hell, which he painted in the most frightful way he could, and reach paradise, which he made desirable and charming.

  19. In those cantons where people were harsh to the needy he would say, "Look at the people of Briançon.

  20. Look here, look here, thou needy bird, How gay my feathers gleam.

  21. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better work than buying pardons; 44.

  22. In these quarters there may be a separate ward or room for needy Spanish women, mestizas, and the like, in such a way that they may be kept in separation and distinct from the slaves.

  23. She was worth a million and a half--a mighty loss for so small a country; hence it is more needy than ever and more wretched, and your Majesty will have pity on it.

  24. The desirability of aiding needy Spaniards is again urged, and this charity should be placed in charge of the Confraternity of La Misericordia.

  25. By such a course many needy Spaniards and soldiers could be aided and relieved in their most pressing necessity, and would not die of hunger, or have to commit thefts or other evil acts, which cause their death and decrease.

  26. The morning sun of this day threw its enlivening rays on the round frame of a small window, and illumined the largest room of a needy peasant's house.

  27. So that the weak, and poor, and needy had no one to right them, no one to take their part.

  28. In Major Bayer's office I saw the major stamp an order that turned over to the acting burgomaster ten thousand bags of flour for distribution among the more needy citizens.

  29. Every day I give away to these people between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred loaves of bread; and I give to some who are particularly needy rations of tea and sugar and coffee and rice.

  30. But our woman's work finds also its mission among the needy whites of the South.

  31. Send us the missionaries for these needy fields.

  32. We trust that other large givers may be stimulated to follow in the footsteps of one who has so wisely invested his money for the uplifting of the most needy in our land.

  33. Hence it is that the very needy become exceptionally sharp in more senses than one.

  34. In like manner the needy circumstances of Charlotte Cushman had much to do with her obtaining an engagement at the Princess's Theatre, and making the great reputation she achieved in England.

  35. Returning, the needy artist saw at a street-corner a boy selling baked potatoes, and moreover the artist observed that the boy was doing a busy trade.

  36. Extra delay took place, the needy commissionnaire having gone on foot, putting the coach-money in his pocket.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beggared; beggarly; bereaved; bereft; broke; deprived; destitute; disadvantaged; fleeced; fortune; impeccable; impoverished; indigent; lean; low; mendicant; needy; pauperized; penurious; poor; stony; straitened; stripped; unprosperous