Sentence examples for more paltry from inspiring English sources

Commitments from other countries look even more paltry.

Its schools and roads receive even more paltry amounts.

I'm open to trying my luck on the romance market once more, paltry though the pickings are in New York.

The book had to change radically to reflect the way in which, however difficult it may be, childhood experience is this magical zone, and then adulthood is much more paltry in a lot of ways.

A transplant is an option only for a woman who has a thick enough area of hair from the back and sides to "donate" to a more paltry part of her scalp.

The figure elegantly captures the dire economic state of many of America's leading news titles, coming as it does just days after the sale of the Boston Globe by the New York Times Co to the owner of the Red Sox, John Henry, for an even more paltry $70m.

While the UK Medical Research Council (2010) has recognized the need for capacity building, its own Addiction Research Strategy devoted only small sums to this aim and failed to gain more than paltry sums from the Economic and Social Research Council and other important funders.

It is going to need more than the paltry money has been offered so far".

That would allow Greenlanders to grow more than the paltry 100 tonnes of potatoes they manage now.

When investors start worrying less about risk and more about the paltry yields available on rich-country securities, the region should quickly find itself back in fashion.

INVESTORS looking for more than the paltry yields on US Treasuries might consider Côte d'Ivoire's eurobond (as a dollar bond issued outside America is known).