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Example sentences for "poor boys"

  • My poor boys, no wonder you look so sad, to see your mother looking so badly, and be compelled to leave her here alone among strangers who know nothing about her past life.

  • Poor boys, I wonder if they remember that journey in the cars as I do.

  • My poor boys, how tried and worried they must have been.

  • Poor boys, they went in and out; it seemed to me they did not eat or sleep for some days; I thought they were as crazy as I was in the cars.

  • No, no," cried Jack; "I fear my poor boys are no more.

  • She panted, "They are so glad to get out of it, poor boys, poor boys.

  • The fact that menial work was to be done by servants and that Fellows were to be waited on at table by the "poor boys" is a further indication of the dignity of the Society.

  • The "poor boys" who sang in Chapel and waited on the Fellows were whipped like boys elsewhere, who were being taught grammar, but the birch was unknown as a punishment for undergraduates till late in the middle ages.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor boys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being succeeded; note that; poor aunt; poor blind; poor children; poor creature; poor devil; poor fellow; poor girl; poor house; poor little; poor master; poor niece; poor people; poor relations; poor sinners; poor soil; poor soul; poor souls; poor thing; poor whites; poor wife; poorly developed; started early; took his; vous avez