Sentence examples for meager possessions from inspiring English sources

Ursuline nuns stored their meager possessions in boxy cypress dressers.

This finally made sense after her death, when Mrs. Watt received her friend's meager possessions.

Near the main bridge, more than 160 South Sudanese languish in shacks with their meager possessions.

A few dozen starving settlers packed some meager possessions and sailed from Jamestown on June 7, headed back toward England.

People were sometimes visible only by their feet or hands, or their presence was simply implied by their handicrafts or meager possessions, like flapping laundry.

The next day, rather than protecting them, police officers ordered them to empty their small huts of their meager possessions, witnesses said.

The border guards went through our suitcases, delighting in turning our meager remaining possessions inside out, and then — suddenly — pulled my mother away.

Left homeless by a fire, Hernandez, head in hands, surrounded herself with her meager remaining possessions: random shoes, pots and pans, cassette tapes and a large bottle of vegetable oil stored in laundry baskets, two dresser drawers and a Salvation Army plastic shopping bag.

Slaves dug basement pits to store their meager food and possessions, while owners lavished crown moldings and leather wall coverings on their rooms.

No matter how meager their physical possessions, they carry beliefs, traditions, sensibilities, ways of talking, thinking, seeing and doing, all in their heads.

Their parents—no longer in possession of the moral authority that war confers have to prove themselves on the meager battlefields of their suburban homes instead, a generalized fear replacing any specific enemy.