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Example sentences for "poor relations"

  • Lamb states in the essay on "Poor Relations," where Favell figures as "W.

  • Bound books were not allowed to pass by post.

  • But the Colonel, for all his title, had a forest of poor relations and a brushwood swamp of shabby friends, for he had scrambled up to fortune, and now the time was come when he must define his new social position.

  • After I had used her up pretty well, I came dawn upon my poor relations.

  • Many people are much pestered with poor relations.

  • Nobody likes to be told that he is too fortunate, and that he wants defeated ambition, poor relations, and family scandals to make him level with the rest of mankind.

  • Poor relations, family scandals, and humiliations and all.

  • And yet Constance had told him that for want of poor relations he was out of harmony with the rest of the world.

  • VIII Supper with the Cooneys: Poor Relations, but you must be Nice to them; of Hen Cooney's friend V.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor relations" 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:
    another individual; fallen tree; leaves ovate; poor beggar; poor blind; poor child; poor country; poor dear; poor dears; poor fellow; poor fellows; poor folk; poor folks; poor husband; poor little; poor old; poor papa; poor priests; poor relation; poor sinner; poor white; poor wretch; poor young; poorest countries; poorly developed; suffered himself