Examples of 'dirt-poor' in a sentence

Meaning of "dirt-poor"

dirt-poor (adjective) - Describing extreme poverty or destitution. This phrase is used to emphasize a person or community's lack of financial resources and living conditions below the poverty line
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  • In a condition of extreme poverty.

How to use "dirt-poor" in a sentence

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Prospectors or dirt-poor samurai come wandering in.
Dirt-poor loser can hardly be called offensive.
The populations of dirt-poor countries is growing.
The dirt-poor cops were astounded by the luxury.
But you called me dirt-poor in front of her.
I thought they were supposed to be dirt-poor.
She claims that she was a dirt-poor illiterate peasant.
I refuse to stay here and end up being dirt-poor.
Says the dirt-poor kid who actually asked to be treasurer.
You are making it so obvious that your family is dirt-poor.
The boy was the son of a dirt-poor single mother.
Still have several hundred million people who are dirt-poor.
His parents were dirt-poor and could not afford to send their son to college.
You can not say that if you have been dirt-poor before.
How a boy grew up in a dirt-poor shithole and climbed his way out through hard work.

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The police had it out for him because they were dirt-poor.
The backdrop to this political nightmare is dirt-poor misery and the absence of any law.
We 's dirt-poor and it did not make sense to hang on.
I want him to be from a dirt-poor family.
She 's from a dirt-poor country in the tropics.
You wanted to make me dirt-poor.
His parents were dirt-poor farmers from North Dakota.
She 's an older college student from a dirt-poor family.
Some dirt-poor scholarship kid.
These were not dirt-poor places.
The dirt-poor farmer that you were.
Came from a dirt-poor family.
Dirt-poor fortune-hunters from all over the world.
Oh, we used to eat it when we were dirt-poor and starving.
Why did that dirt-poor woman take me in to bring me up?
I was bounced around from relative to relative, most of them dirt-poor.
An impossible burden for a dirt-poor family of rock-hoppers.
We have the ultra-rich in this country and the dirt-poor.
I am just a dirt-poor samurai.
For a dirt-poor soldier who 's suddenly gained some prospects, you do not seem very cheerful.
Otherwise . he could lie in some institution for dirt-poor crazy people.
It was a dirt-poor village.
When you met Stewart, he was a dirt-poor boy.
It was a dirt-poor community.
It was about a pimp in dirt-poor Rome.
And you're a dirt-poor chub lover with a bloody nose.
The fact is, Thai farmers are dirt-poor in comparison.
Where would a dirt-poor loser like you get all the gold for that?
Before that, he grew up dirt-poor in Trinidad.
How dirt-poor we all were together in Paris?
In real life, black people are dirt-poor and white people run everything.
Depression-weary audience can identify with . Ideals that any dirt-poor.
I was born to a dirt-poor minor official . You know.
When my mom … died, I was bounced around from relative to relative, most of them dirt-poor.
When you met Stuart, he was a dirt-poor boy … going to college on an athletic scholarship.

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