Sentence examples for only scanty from inspiring English sources

Only scanty leftovers remain for increasing voter turnout and participation among minorities and in poor communities.

The New Testament offers only scanty points of departure for that development.

Only scanty bits of information are available about the few years that Duccio lived after the completion of the Maestà.

On Thursday, Guy Vassall-Adams, for the three media organisations, told the court that prosecutors had reluctantly given only "scanty" reasons explaining the miscarriage of justice.

Only scanty information exists about his immediate family: his father, Sin-muballit; his sister, Iltani; and his firstborn son and successor, Samsuiluna, are known by name.

Only scanty evidence exists that graduated rules were used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; plain straightedges seem to have predominated.

These were "ladies by the hour who brought only scanty-panty testimonials of propriety," according to the 2001 Fort Greene Newsletter article.

Ms. Rice said nothing publicly about her two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Mr. Ivanov, and her aides gave only a scanty account of the topics discussed.

But it remains relative: the breasts and navel are hidden by an apparel only as scanty as the public morality of the time allowed.

A further 2.5 billion are "underelectrified", in development parlance: although connected to the grid, they can get only unreliable, scanty power.

It is a place of harsh extremes of climate: of long winters when blizzards drive down from the mountains and snow lies thick on the plains, of summers whose heat is relieved only by scanty rains, with drought biting deep into the soil, and dry winds stealing moisture from leaf and stem.