Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: poorest
IPA transcription: [p'uɹɪst]
Pronunciations of poorest
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Usage examples
  • He stood for the rights of the poorest miner.
  • He was the happiest Indian at the Post, and one of the poorest.
  • He slept in the cellar of one of its poorest tenement houses, and lived in the gutters.
  • It would be much better, as she truly thought, to marry Conniston, even though he was the poorest of peers.
  • O let none ever think children a burden to them; when the poorest circumstances can produce so much riches in a Pamela!
  • A full set of the utensils required for the game can now be had for about $50.00; but the materials are of the poorest kind.
  • It is a comfort to be able to gratify such grandees with a farthing or two; it makes the poorest man feel that he can do good.
  • These Biscay hookers, even to the poorest, were gilt and painted. Tattooing is part of the genius of those charming people, savages to some degree.
  • Progress is threatened unless social institutions can be so adjusted as to reverse the present process of multiplying the poorest, and of extinguishing the most capable families.
  • But most of even the poorest did their best to pay something; and in this respect it is interesting to compare the usages of those long past times with some features of the college life of our own days.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons), License CC BY-SA 4.0