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How to use the word needy in a Sentence?

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A lot of older( long Covid) patients we deal with aren't accustomed to asking for help, and they think, perhaps, it's a little shameful to be needy.

James Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Give alms to the needy because you want to do it, not because of pity.

Clifford Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Ego is needy but spirit is complete

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
5 years ago

She was an excellent houseguest according to my mom and dad, she was never needy. She would keep to herself. She knew she had the run of the house. The guest room had its own entrance and exit. They played charades and cards. Gene Kelly, who was probably one of the greatest charade players of all time, was unstoppable. Marilyn was always like a little girl watching a master at work because when Gene Kelly did his charades, everyone would stop in awe… She loved to read and would sit quietly for hours and read books. And she loved music.

Joshua Greene

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Maintaining flexibility through the Medicaid program is critical to the commonwealth's ability to provide coverage for the needy, and I urge Congress to reject this bill in its current form.

Charlie Baker

Found on CNN
6 years ago

There is so much low-hanging fruit to catch in this country when it comes to welfare fraud, and sadly, every day that goes by without reform allows for abuse and steals resources from the truly needy.

Josh Archambault

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We are the large regional hospital in a three-hour radius, and we were turning down sick and needy babies from other hospitals.

Sean Loudin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do not see what is important for me, rather, I see whom I am important. That is why I am working for the needy people in Nepal.

Ganga Sagar Pant

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I see how people are living and how needy they are now. They're losing their jobs, and many families are cutting back on spending to finance loans. People cannot pay, jobs are being lost in all industries except food. Just next to our factory is a factory that produces parts for railway engines. The buyers have no money to pay and they cannot afford to buy the raw materials to fulfill their orders. It's a chain ... Whole sectors are moving into a period of stagnation.

Alexander Gerlakh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Laugh and love; live life to the fullest. Care and share; extend your hand to the most needy.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The fact is, there is not an unlimited pot of money to help needy students or high-achieving low-income students. And there is a certain one-for-one, a crowding-out effect.

Steven Camarota

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Children, the poor and the needy, those are where he is coming from. He just wants to meet children in conflicted areas and tell the rest of the world their suffering, as he follows their stories, he ends up in war zones.

Toshi Maeda

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The saddest part is if the guy was that needy, he could have just come down to our center.

Salvation Army Maj. Gary Sturdivant

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Donate to the extent that even if you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy

Sivaji

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art. Let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; shunning always such as are poor and needy, for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.

Sir W Raleigh, to his Son

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

Omar Khayyam

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Eva Pern

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert Humphrey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Jules Feiffer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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