Sentence examples for how paltry from inspiring English sources

And he trusted his own expertise — no matter how paltry or irrelevant — more than anyone else's.

But how paltry it can seem as a medium of expression for all that fills our searching souls!

The Ryan budget exposes just how paltry that check would be: a cut of $810 billion through 2022, one-fifth of current spending, which would lead states to drop coverage for an estimated 14 million to 28 million people.

In an instant, Burke suggests, the theater would be deserted, proving just how paltry the pleasures of staged tragedy are compared with the delight that can be taken in the "real misfortunes and pains of others".

Even today we are getting hints about how paltry human wits can be when set against computers who throw all their computational horsepower at a problem.

In a charged environment, where the state like others across America is looking to make even further budget cuts to an already underfunded system, no legislator has dared propose closing any revenue stream, no matter how paltry.

But how shallow, paltry and mean-spirited has this German reaction to the euro crisis been!

The Chancellor simply had no idea how his paltry deal would play with the electorate.

Penning, a government minister, said he would be writing to the attorney-general to investigate how such a "paltry" fine could be imposed.

How to switch banks Paltry £32 energy cut annoys Npower is the latest big six energy giant to reveal a £32 cut to standard tariffs.

Last September in a restaurant on Israel's Mediterranean coast, Ze'ev Goldberg, a partner at the boutique investment bank Compass Advisers, listened to Ren Jianxin, the chairman of China National Chemical, explain how he turned a paltry 10,000 renminbi loan (about $1,500) into a $24 billion company.