Sentence examples for meagre before from inspiring English sources

England's rewards for improved bowling were relatively meagre before lunch.

Contractors happily take advantage of their illegal status to hire them on the cheap, while the police seem content to round them up occasionally and burn their mattresses and other meagre possessions before setting them free again.

Sometimes an entire family can endlessly work off a meagre loan taken years before.

In a desperate attempt to get as much science from the lander as possible before its meagre battery reserves ran out, scientists deployed a drill to bore down into the comet surface.

Men, women and children are called forward by their detainee number and given five minutes to gather what meagre belongings they have before being herded into a car and taken to the airport, bound for Nauru or Manus Island.

Having endured the real thing less than a week before, I found it a meagre reproduction.

Even if the recovery can be sustained this year, GDP growth is likely to be a meagre 1% or so.Before too long, public employers will have to start shedding labour.

OFHEO has to grovel annually before Congress for meagre funding.

This all occurred sometime before the (still meagre) student debt deferral options available today.

And so before eating his meagre ration of watery gruel he would masturbate until his palm bled.

"I hereby declare myself the king of Ward Three," he says, before commandeering the meagre food supplies and agreeing to release them as and when the women offer themselves for rape.