Sentence examples for meager few from inspiring English sources

Then there were the Altoids tin mods (a mod is a modification, like a hack), simpler than hollowing out a light bulb and filling it with concrete, yet still strangely satisfying: a clock, a strobe, a speaker and a tiny guitar, to name just a meager few.

The shift of Switchboard from hosted service to enterprise infrastructure could spell bad news for your average Jane seeking to eke out a meager few extra megabits per second on the mean streets, but it will still be available to consumers as a personal server for $90 that runs on personal PCs and Macs that you can access from the road.

I supply them with a meager few stamps and receive such favorable caloric density it's crazy.

Over that period the fund grew from a meager few-million-dollar investment to over $11 billion.

Additional anecdotal reports suggest that NOM's ground operations in the four states were meager, with few field staff or volunteers to drum up support for views that appear increasingly outdated.

"With the few meager sales I make in the course of a year, it can be difficult," he said.

He said that he had asked Ms. Linet for a few "meager things" from the house, and that she had refused.

After the show, the musicians split a few meager dollars of tip money, and Mr. Wilson headed to his midnight shift at the bookstore and peep show.

A local newspaper is a magnifying glass, and no one has better insight on a city than a reporter assigned a few meager square blocks.

From at least two dozen specialty pizzas, a thin-crusted mini-Margherita had the right stuff — mozzarella, olive oil and tomato sauce — but needed more than a few meager shreds of sweet basil.

I've lived in Saratoga Springs for nearly 20 years and have spent a fair amount of time at Saratoga Race Course, as a fan throwing around a few meager, largely uninformed dollars, and as a journalist combing the backstretch for stories.