Sentence examples for by meager from inspiring English sources

The club, long beleaguered by meager attendance, wants badly to relocate to San Jose, to draw fans, and, yes, make and spend money.

The outlook for home prices remains glum, with a drop of 2.5 percent expected this year followed by meager growth for several years thereafter, according to a recent report from MacroMarkets LLC.

"Peace in the belly" has been elusive in recent years, since the economic morass fostered by meager investment and withheld foreign aid made life harder for this nation's impoverished masses.

In Sharon Springs, Kan., lunch protesters at Wallace County High School posted a video on YouTube, "We Are Hungry"; in it, students faint in the hallways and during physical education class, acting as if they had been done in by meager helpings of potato puff casserole and chicken nuggets.

Stung by meager defense orders from an impoverished army at home, Russia's military industrial establishment is engaged in a major effort to increase arms sales to Asia, the Middle East and Africa and is expanding its share of the lucrative global arms market.

The abandoned pens still appear as oval shaped areas of luxuriant grass- and herb-rich vegetation surrounded by meager mountain vegetation, due to slow growth of vegetation.

But the weather has been so mild in the last month that snowfall is being measured by the meager inch, not by the traditional foot, and Brook Tabor, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office there, has become an unofficial concierge for the Burlington area.

Already debilitated by a meager diet and exhausted by days of marching and fighting, hundreds of men died from preventable diseases like scurvy or a lack of basic medical attention.

FRUSTRATED by the meager checking account deals offered by their local banks, consumers may turn to the Internet, thinking that they can do better.

The expulsion from Afghanistan, Suri later wrote, was followed by "three meager years which we spent as fugitives," dodging the international dragnet by "moving between safe houses and hideouts".

And they were almost certainly discouraged by the meager compensation.