Sentence examples for meager as from inspiring English sources

When Toys R UsUstockck was strong, share options fed into the profit-sharing plan were a powerful incentive to store clerks whose cash pay is rather meager (as low as the minimum wage$5.15 an hour).

When Toys R UsUstockck was strong, share options fed into the profit-sharing plan were a powerful incentive to store clerks, whose cash pay is meager (as low as the U.S.minimum wage$5.15 an hour).

Meager as they are, the proposed toll increases are necessary and should be quickly instituted.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 We are excited about the few inches of snow that fell today, meager as it may be.

Meager as it has been, "this is not the least-snowy winter" in the city, Mr. Fybish said.

From a canon as rich as his, and a documentary record as meager as his, you can infer almost anything.

The president of Djibouti, Ismael Omar Gelleh, who has spent a good deal of his nation's meager resources as well as his own prestige on the conference, has strongly argued instead for an assembly based on regional representation.

Thorpe had indeed played professional baseball in the Eastern Carolina League for Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1909 and 1910, receiving meager pay; reportedly as little as US$2 $$ today) per game and as much as US$35 $$ today) per week.

As a young child, her mother's meager salary as a restaurant line cook qualified the family for public assistance.

In spring it has a meager look, as if awakened from winter but too beaten by cold to emerge as yet.

Some supplemented their meager incomes as laundresses or teachers with prostitution.