Sentence examples for at scant from inspiring English sources

American and European missile and air attacks have already shown that we can inflict substantial damage on Colonel Qaddafi's military at scant risk.

Facebook's non-standard choice to count a "video view" as anyone who watches a clip for at scant three seconds or more has caused confusion for years.

But it will hit the market this coming March at a scant $27,100, and with leather at only $28,950.

Wilde's actual accomplishments, disregarding a brilliant undergraduate career at Oxford, were scant at that point.

At 6.1mm thick and weighing in at a scant 88g, Joswiak pegs it as being the company's thinnest and lightest yet.

There is little wonder at the scant news coverage.

At night, scant light glimmers in the few shops still left open.

The mercurial singer-songwriter has emerged from solitude to enjoy a hero's reception at her scant live performances.

Small but mighty, the Sage cupcake weighed in at a scant three and a half ounces but delivered twice the pleasure of its bloated competitors.

Overall, investment is running at a scant 17% of GDP.President Lula rattled investors back in February when he complained that having independent agencies to regulate power, telecoms and other utilities amounted to an "outsourcing of the state".

As if in response to this vague miasma of disapprobation, James Plath, president of the Updike Society (membership stands at a scant 250), adopted a faintly apologetic tone when speaking to local paper the Reading Eagle about their acquisition of the house.