Sentence examples for measly things from inspiring English sources

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The real question in the coming weeks is if any other Western countries will join the French war-party and expand their support beyond measly things like one transport plane (as in the case of Canada).

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While Novick's explosion is a measly, scratchy little thing slipping out of frame, Lichtenstein's self-possessed fireball unfurls like a blooming flower.

unworthy opponent‐‐ the smallest thing, a trivial, measly hair, boring its way into.

Britain is pretty poorly off for butterflies, all things considered, with a measly 58 breeding species: cross the Channel and you'll find nearly five times as many.

This is attributable to a few things, arguments I find untenable, conjectural, measly excuses not to support Williams.

It may be a money thing, in that we can only offer measly wages, but I suspect the parts simply aren't there.

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.

Things must be rough at Google these days, what with its measly $75 billion in annual revenues and $16 billion in profits.

Twitter's user count grew a measly 1.4% this quarter, down from 4.8% in Q3 2014, but CFO Anthony Noto said things are turning around.

Those are some rather measly savings to start, but when you pair them with savings from RadioShack's Trade & Save program things get really interesting.

A similar thing happened at Royal Holloway university, Surrey in 2011: a small number of students occupied one measly corridor to demonstrate against course closures and redundancies; the management barely bothered to negotiate, but cited "health and safety" and called in the police to clear away the young people paying their salaries.

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