Sentence examples for a paltry collection from inspiring English sources
In these woods, a single man will do, armed with a stick and a paltry collection of stones.
Once your eyes had adjusted to the glare from the overpolished bonnets, you saw them for what they were - a paltry collection of consumer durables.
My wife and I displayed a paltry collection in comparison — mostly clothing, bedding and some drapes.
And, coincidentally, Netflix just added the 1950 Stanwyck vehicle No Man of Her Own to its still paltry collection of pre-1960 titles: a B-level noir melodrama given A-level grit by Stanwyck and a hard little screenplay by Sally Benson and Catherine Turney.
In 1930, a library clerk, Romana Javitz, took over a paltry picture collection started in 1915.
For his part, Father Iwanowski in one breath denied that was doing any such thing, and in the other insisted change was necessary to keep Our Lady of Czestochowa from becoming another St. Lucy's, one of several Catholic churches in the area shuttered by the archdiocese several years ago because of empty pews and paltry collections.
In the past year, it has improved tax collection from a paltry 70percenttothethighigh 80's.
Yet annual maintenance costs are a paltry $124,000 a year.
Last spring, when one US dollar got you a paltry €0.72, Americans visiting to Paris needed to fork out $17 for a €12 entrance ticket to the permanent collections of the Louvre.
A paltry fifteen minutes.
