Sentence examples for meager to from inspiring English sources

Government financing for marketing purposes was too meager to do the job, according to the association.

It can cut costs by consolidating post offices in areas where mail traffic is too meager to warrant separate branches.

Mr. Florio's budget is too meager to buy television ads until the week before the June 6 primary.

Demand for LTV's product is too meager to justify the company staying in business, these executives said.

To many people outside the community, and even some inside it, the stakes seem far too meager to justify all the bad blood.

His Hall of Fame vote totals, meager to start with, dropped to 19.8 percent (115 votes), several percentage points below what he tallied in four previous votes.

In the scheme of things, economists said, the kinds of changes on the table in Washington are far too small to make much of a difference, meaning in the long run they might inject a meager-to-modest boost to growth.

Those on unemployment never really believed the Senate, their Congress, the People's House, would really cut their meager-to-begin-with-non-living-wage-insurance benefits and not reinstate them at least for a little while.

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Some put their Twitter nicknames on their club jerseys to draw meager notice to a mostly ignored sport.

But efforts to conserve the ocean, though valiant, are meager compared to the scale of the threats to the ocean.