Sentence examples for a scant slice from inspiring English sources

Still, it's unreasonable to expect this book to be able to offer much more than what its author endearingly describes as "a scant slice of a deep and nuanced pie".

Shave a scant 1/4-inch-thick slice off one side of each sprout and put cut side down.

But if the 1940s, why not a scant two decades before, when Iraq's straight-line frontiers were established by the victorious allies, so slicing this arbitrary entity into being from the cooling corpse of the Ottoman Empire's caliphate?

(It has a scant soundtrack).

Democrats can point to a scant few.

Stitch, using a scant 1/4 " seam allowance.

The process lasted a scant nine minutes.

A scant three or four hands went up.

Zero to 60 acceleration requires a scant 5.4 seconds.

I had been at the school a scant twenty minutes.

In a scant four hours, we had reached Bangalore.