Sentence examples for a paltry thing from inspiring English sources

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

"Arranging colours on a canvas is a paltry thing compared with what calls out to be explored".

(Not that Pinter, who died in 2008, may have thought much of the value of experience; Spooner calls it "a paltry thing" and remarks, "Everyone has it").

The checkpoint outside town was a paltry thing, with just a few anti-aircraft guns, a lot of trash, and a small throng of worried-looking young rebels.

The political victory that that effort provided will eventually be a paltry thing compared with the actual human transcendence that it initiated, however fitfully so far.

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick, unless / Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing".

This paltry thing – Margot's life – she wants it and she will do what is necessary to take it.

This paltry thing – our lives – he wanted it," the middle-aged heroine (Stockard Channing) observes of the young confidence-trickster (Will Smith) who inveigles his way into her home in the film Six Degrees of Separation (1993).

Perhaps something could be done along these lines, but it would be a poor, paltry, truncated, trifling thing.

It's got a paltry handful of options compared to the real thing, but that's still more options than most of its competitors can muster.

Yet annual maintenance costs are a paltry $124,000 a year.