Sentence examples for but meager from inspiring English sources

Those things must have signaled nothing but meager returns.

ABC garnered solid results for "Wipeout" at 8 (8.3 million) but meager ratings for reruns the rest of the night.

The victims were among the most vulnerable in our society — hardworking people making an honest, but meager, living.

But meager earnings always kept him living from one paycheck to the next, always too close to poverty.

Under Ban's dangerously weak regime, women have been increasingly vulnerable to the crimes of war and offered little but meager handouts in its aftermath.

If there's an ongoing recovery, but a meager, tentative one at that?

But this meager willingness to compromise puts Mr. Bush outside the Republican mainstream.

But with meager wages, Pullman porters made substantial contributions to their home communities.

But the meager tax take leaves the United States ill prepared to compete.

My wife began working, but her meager salary as a teacher was barely enough to cover day care costs.

He has pulled in more than $250,000 online in recent days, exceeding a campaign goal, but a meager amount by the standards of modern campaigns.