Sentence examples similar to meager properties from inspiring English sources
Eking out a meager income from the property that remained after generations of litigious heirs had thoroughly pillaged the family's estate, he lived a sheltered and ineffectual life, migrating from coffeehouse to coffeehouse, devouring literature in several languages and nursing his own oppressive sense of frustrated vocation.
Instead, those movies have gone underground, retreating to the straight-to-VOD circuit and forced to make do with meager budgets and decades-old intellectual property.
Its only remaining property consisted of the road and some meager equipment; and these had shrunken in value from $450,000 to $50,000the latter being the estimated salvage value less the cost of dismantling.
But thanks to skyrocketing coastal real estate prices and an influx of property owners who prefer an acre of backyard to meager square footage with an ocean view, the county's population now tops out at around 300,000, a startling number for a place that not long ago was mostly forest and pastureland.
He said she and her sister were clear victims of fraud, that the companies pushing loans on them had deliberately inflated their meager incomes on the loan applications, had inflated the value of their property, had imposed unconscionable terms and fees and were fully aware that the two women did not know what they were getting into.
The properties were controlled by the churches but the owners were able to collect a meager rent.
Farmers in Kansas now hear a meager splash of water when they drop a rock in their wells because the groundwater beneath their properties is so low.
The credit system is managed so that citizens receive meager returns on their savings, state-owned enterprises get cheap credit, and investment in infrastructure and property is encouraged.
