Sentence examples for measly that from inspiring English sources

These animals fetch a pretty penny, and the compensation paid by the state was so measly that livestock owners didn't even bother to file claims.

"There is very little money to be accessed and it's demoralising, especially when you are competing with your friends for the measly amount that's available.

In their 0-3 sthet, the Jets have scored just three touchdowns, one a game, a measly ration that has put their season on the brink before the first quarter of the schedule has been completed.

It allows him to use 100percentt of his brain -- not the measly 20 that has gotten him nowhere.

Comments on blogs and Facebook echo a similar frustration about the measly debate that has followed the publication of the transcripts.

I was cold and couldn't manage to get the water warm enough from the measly trickle that dripped out of the hospital showerhead.

Every year, roughly 150 million cattle and pigs are slaughtered in our nation's slaughterhouses, and the one measly law that attempts to ensure some small decrease in their abuse is all-but-ignored by the agency charged with enforcing it.

In all things good and giddy, there's always one measly eventuality that no one's thought about, or that hasn't been thought about in so long it almost doesn't exist.

What if that measly statistic includes the women spectators!

"You can't expect us to give you a measly million -- that's less than we spent in Germany in one city alone," an American diplomat tells the prime minister of Grand Fenwick during peace negotiations.

Bottom of their Champions League group, Atlético had picked up a measly draw – although that was against Cypriot giants Apoel – and sat a solitary point off the La Liga relegation zone, having conceded 17, their worst record in 56 years.