Sentence examples for it scant from inspiring English sources

History texts gave it scant recognition, other than noting how its presence burdened white Americans.

Their vanquished rivals paid it scant attention, too.

So long as the economy remains reasonably healthy, he pays it scant attention.

The music which plays over it – scant electronic sounds and a mournful piano motif – gives little away.

Calling The Cove a cluster of self-catering apartments does it scant justice and brings to mind homogeneous prefabs and caravan parks.

The session opened with a work by Yves Klein that was so small that bidders could have been forgiven for giving it scant attention.

That's true enough, but it scants the excitement of experiment and discovery that the more adventurous filmmakers of the day brought to their maiden voyages into sound.

Even if some of the materials used to build it were scant, its construction was remarkably solid: the house feels as tightly built as a ship.

The most frequent arguments leveled against EBM are that it is reductionist or simplistic and, according to its critics, that it gives scant importance to clinical experience.

When De Beers sold 80 percent of the world's diamonds, which it did for most of its 123-year history, it paid scant attention to public opinion.

And Goes Bad In Greece...Greece financed a large public-welfare state and built up huge debt for its size that it has scant hope of repaying now.