Sentence examples for paltry creature from inspiring English sources

By Harold Gleason The New Yorker, August 3, 1929 P. 18 She knows him well, she says--a paltry creature; View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Doreen St. Félix By Jia Tolentino.

By Harold Gleason The New Yorker, August 3, 1929 P. 18 She knows him well, she says--a paltry creature; View Article By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Phil Klay By Masha Gessen.

Decades of poaching have whittled down the numbers of this massive and fearsome-looking creature to a paltry band of survivors - and, because none of the usual conservation techniques have worked, the animals now total just five.

And yet the little creatures staged a comeback, as a captive breeding program, which had a paltry 18 animals on which to rebuild the species, began to have success in the late 1980's.

Paltry facts!

It's so paltry.

A paltry fifteen minutes.

Foreclosure relief is paltry.

It's paltry.

The money is paltry.

Also a little paltry.