Sentence examples for meagre a from inspiring English sources

This show used to be token and meagre, a handful of samples in a little room on which no final judgment was based.

Köln would thus only receive £6.6m, too meagre a return for the political and sporting fallout of selling their prize asset half-way through the season.

But the story is meagre, a bargain-basement sampling of megamusical clichés, and even the peppiest Irish jig can't stomp life into it.

Thus my protagonist is doomed to frustration, because no respectable modern woman should aspire to so dismal and meagre a goal.

When he replaced the nightwatchman, Steven Finn, at the crease yesterday morning, his return from this Test was meagre: a solitary, though crucial, first-innings wicket and a three-ball duck.

The model in the ad is as high-end handsome as Clooney on a good day, wearing a watch that probably costs more than my home, looking out the window and wondering if $300,000 is too meagre a pay rise to justify the annoyance of changing firms.

But her meagre £15,000-a-year settlement, based on half the Prince's salary as a Royal Navy officer, caused problems.

There was a meagre light, a near-to-fading light.

So if a 5% discount is applied to the current share price it would mean a meagre 2p a share profit for taxpayers.

Private employment rose a meagre 41,000, an anticlimax after other signs that America's recovery was gathering steam.

If that happens, Delphi's well-paid American workers could suddenly find themselves taking home a meagre $9 an hour.