Sentence examples for meager and from inspiring English sources

But the consolation is meager and the conviction erratic.

Profits were meager, and each area relied on natural snow.

Such judgment as yet is largely a prophecy based on meager and uninterpreted experience.

Their resources were meager, and the country's fine-arts infrastructure was virtually nonexistent.

"Wage growth continues to be pretty meager, and unemployment continues to be lackluster," Mr. King said.

The first year she tried planting rice, her yields were meager and the prices low.

The speeches are meager and perfunctory, but Kouchner pronounces himself satisfied.

Roger Ebert's critique used the terms "horrible," "unbearable," "meager" and "music of hell" to describe it.

Employment opportunities in Africa are meager and rarely involve wealth creation.

As a result, their output is meager and insufficient for their subsistence.

Prime Minister John Key said he was spreading his Marmite more thinly to stretch his meager and dwindling supply.