Sentence examples for meagrely from inspiring English sources

There, however, Rommel was at last, albeit meagrely, reinforced; and, after repulsing a British attack on December 26, he prepared a counteroffensive.

In 1840 he went to Paris, supporting himself meagrely while beginning his researches.

And in the painting on this page, he made his own portrait of that ludicrous immoralist Adolf Hitler, the Austrian dwarf-man with the receding hairline, the sometime meagrely talented artist of schmalzily traditional scenes, wielding his bloody, penile cosh in the ever darkening wasteland of his own tragic devising.

From 1875 until her death, she and her widowed mother lived in Toronto, meagrely sustained by the sale of her stories and poems to Toronto newspapers and to magazines in the United States.

Of the 56 people aboard the freighter, about 42 managed to climb onto 4 meagrely provisioned 8-by-10' rafts, 3 of which disappeared during bad weather never to be seen again.

The closest he came to New York City was the Garden State Ballet, a small, meagrely funded company based in Newark.

The staffs in hospitals who carry the trays, launder the linen, & perform similar highly important, meagrely rewarded jobs, stepped up their strikes.

Like J., she is black, and their guarded attraction to one another furnishes the novel's romantic interest and its main, rather meagrely fuelled engine of suspense.

The dialogue is meagrely written and sometimes so stiltedly spoken that it's as if some obscure irony were being practised.

It's meagrely furnished with cast-offs from their captor's life: a bent spoon, chipped crockery, a blunted breadknife with its stabbing-point hammered off.

Avoiding swaths of descriptive padding, Margaret is made to regard her milieu with sharply focused eyes, whether she is speaking of her meagrely furnished family home or the grand house of the wealthy, cultured Cobbold family of Ipswich who employ her as a nursemaid and become her lifelong supporters.