Sentence examples for made meager from inspiring English sources

In recent years, Molson's sports division has lost money or made meager profits.

In culturally processing the city's enormous variances in personal wealth, it can feel as if we have made meager headway since the last Gilded Age and its attendant financial disaster, but it has been headway, nevertheless.

You can go high like that and you will never have to slave away at small jobs to make meager pesos like I do.

What struck me is how conventional some dimensions of their relationship were when they were living together, with Ms. Smith subordinating her own aspirations for a while to make meager earnings and support Mr. Mapplethorpe's career, such as it was in the early days.

Don’t make meager returns or lose your shirt.

Unlike cool cities on the coasts, Denver does not punish those making meager salaries.

The team continued work separately and sporadically, making meager headway and disheartened by the project's obstacles.

After several years of making meager profits in rice, Dugar gave up and returned home to try his hand at coffee farming.

They made a meager living hunting rats and snakes, and sometimes as agricultural laborers.

After college, Ms. Tushnet worked briefly at the National Catholic Register, a weekly magazine, but since 2002 she has made a meager living through writing, computer programming and freelance research.

Middle-class families, who made only meager gains in the 1970's and 80's, also achieved solid progress in the late 90's.