Sentence examples for paltry for from inspiring English sources

Foreign investment is paltry for an economy of its size, and R&D spending is low.

But that's too paltry for the dead-enders, and Mr. McConnell didn't sound particularly optimistic.

His annual return was paltry for a plutocrat, equating to the average yearly income of 32,000 Romans.

When the Securities and Exchange Commission announced recently that it was settling fraud charges against Citigroup for a paltry (for Citigroup) $285 million, the only person actually named in the S.E.C.'s charges was Brian Stoker.

If a piece of the book industry's $15 billion seems too paltry for Mr. Jobs to bother with, he is forgetting that Apple reached its current size only recently.

The cineplex is filled with movies that — like cans of split-pea soup bought immemorially long ago — reëmerge after being dismissed as too paltry for early summer and too lousy for a fall release.

The probe was approved with Dies as chairman, and given a paltry $25,000 for investigating, enough for about a month.

The cost, a paltry $50,000, for grass carefully grown for the occasion on farmland east of San Francisco.

Mr. Cappelli and Reckson Strategic Venture Partners bought the property in bankruptcy court in January 1999 for $10.25 million, a seemingly paltry sum for so much land.

According to the 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer, global trust in those institutions is woefully low, at just 56% for the former and a paltry 52% for the latter.

The United States has budgeted $677.7 billion for military operations and a paltry $55.7 billion for education.