Sentence examples for meager that from inspiring English sources

The recovery has been so meager that unemployment lingers at historically high levels.

Their statistics, generally, were so meager that their broadcaster rarely cited them.

Too many other people already have coverage so meager that a medical crisis means financial calamity.

Financing for the program was so meager that barely half the current number of scholarships (63) were awarded some years.

Since then, Mr. Deloach has tried other messenger jobs but the work there was so unsteady and the pay so meager that he left them.

With a reduction of $630 per student, the year started with a supply budget so meager that parents had to supply photocopier paper.

Without its hot star, the war over Elian might have generated TV coverage as pro forma and meager as that of the pressing political debate over human rights in the more crucial Communist realm of China.

He was right there, teaching us one more lesson: that compensation is meager consolation, that loss is painful, no matter what replaces it.

He has said nice things about full-service community schools and even provided a few meager grants that would fund the socio-emotional interventions and the early education that are required to overcome intense concentrations of poverty.

Some disabled men claim that their hair has turned gray waiting for meager relief that was a decade late.

When seniors have to choose between buying medicine and food because of their meager incomes, that is an agonizing choice.