Sentence examples for meager a from inspiring English sources

After they reject the government's compensation as too meager, a dark campaign of harassment ensues.

With the number of women in Silicon Valley so meager, a prominent discrimination lawsuit does not surprise Ms. Savitt.

Of course $50 million is too meager a sum to rescue major arts groups, even as flailing institutions like the Detroit Institute of Arts reel from budget cuts.

The last show of 16 works ("outfits" is too meager a word) completed by the designer before his suicide last month was held in a gilded salon at the 18th-century H? de Clermont-Tonnerre for small groups of 20 people, who perched on boxes covered in gold leaf, as an aria by the histrionic German coloratura soprano, Simone Kermes, filled the bright but somber room.

In other words, your bar tab is $19.20 (I should be so lucky as to have so meager a bar tab), you pay with a $20, and get no change in return.

With a meager salary, a $100 smartphone is still priced above a comfortable rate for many, he said.

The average worker's salary, a meager $73 a month, nevertheless was up 7percentt in March over a year ago.

Salary: a meager $200 a. week.

Sports Authority's stock plummeted more than 60% in the last year and now sells for a meager $7.50 a share.

Excluding one-time items the number came to a meager 70 cents, a 31% drop, and below the consensus estimate of 75 cents per share.

The minimum wage is a meager $5.15 an hour.