Sentence examples for felt paltry from inspiring English sources
He found work in a local financial firm, but it felt paltry now to be buying ten-thousand-dollar mutual funds.
A $1 million paycheck can feel paltry after one reads about multimillion-dollar bonuses.
The distance felt embarrassingly paltry compared with the marathon and triathlon appeals that normally peppered my inbox, but I duly set up a JustGiving page explaining that, before Christmas, I could barely run for a bus, so 10K was a long way for me.
To make matters worse, the book's illustrations feel both paltry and random; indeed, many of the images that Mr. Sullivan discusses — like the Norman Rockwell depiction of Rosie the Riveter that helped popularize work clothes for women during World War II and the racy 1978 Calvin Klein billboard in Times Square that helped hype his jeans line — do not appear in the volume.
It is 2015; to simply ask for honesty from public figures as black people lie dying in the streets feels like a paltry, retrograde request.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's musical episode, 'Once More, with Feeling', registers a paltry outstanding music direction nomination.
I felt an eerie calm: my paltry follower count was no longer there to taunt me.
After both shows I was struck by how connected I felt to the world around me, and how totally paltry I was to it.
Mr. Davidge, a third-generation Christie's employee attuned to slights in an upper-class society where he never felt comfortable, was angered over what he regarded as a paltry severance package, two friends said.
Imagine how the bereaved and the survivors will feel about Babar's paltry sentence".
The prime minister received loud cheers at the conference on Saturday when he told party members that West Australians were right to feel aggrieved over their paltry share.
