Sentence examples for meager fruit from inspiring English sources
BEHIND THE NEWSPresident Obama set aside his efforts to coax bipartisan support for the stimulus plan, which bore meager fruit (the House version passed with no Republican votes at all).
When the Palestinian Authority took over with its meager budget, it faced the fruits of the Palestine Liberation Organization campaign, the intifada years and entrenched norms: a population with one of the highest fertility rates in the world.
Natural food stores were once known for their meager assortments of shriveled organic fruits and vegetables, shelves of dietary supplements and a limited selection of food that met the generally accepted definition of natural -- minimally processed and free of artificial colors, flavors and preservatives.
It has to include plenty of vegetables and fruits, skimmed dairy products and meager protein sources.
Go all the way and tell him you're a migrant fruit picker and that you supplement your meager wage by working as a live-in maid for the wealthy woman who really owns the place.
The family made makeshift tents from the leaves of trees and foraged for fruits and vegetables to supplement everyone's meager diet.
He liked his wines big, extracted, fruit forward, and dismissed a particularly elegant French wine as meager, tight and tannic.
The mine only pays its meager bills from revenue from a gravel pit on site and the sale of fruit from an orchard on the property.
But your yield from this point forward is very meager.
The national push by labor organizations for a higher minimum wage has been bearing fruit as states and cities have hiked hourly pay, putting pressure on the meager $7.25-an-hour federal minimum.
He describes typical Republican speeches as "meager, shortwinded texts in which, at their best, a few good things might be suspended, like fruit in Jell-O". But he treats George Bush's somersaults over supply-side economics most gently, and excuses Mr. Reagan's wishful assurances that a reduction in taxes would balance the budget: "Reagan hadn't done anything intentionally.
