Sentence examples for paltry it from inspiring English sources

But how paltry it can seem as a medium of expression for all that fills our searching souls!

Mr. Hanley said the Bloomberg administration saw little to negotiate about because city officials considered the unions' money-saving proposals so paltry, it was hard to take them seriously.

Their war is lost and that sum, however paltry it looks, is pretty much the new normal.

It held two rounds of restructuring in 2005 and 2010, making a paltry take-it-or-leave-it offer of 35 cents on the dollar.

Shot in four days in Hollywood, in 3-D and stereophonic sound for a paltry $16,000, it raked in more than $1m on its initial run, and got its leading man recognised.

The movie cagily clutches its cards to its chest the better to build up what paltry suspense it can generate.

The dole, as paltry is it is (about £60 quid now, just under £50 when I was on it), at least allows you to be part of the economy in some capacity.

It can't be effective, as in this case, if the payoff is so paltry that it takes away incentive to challenge fraud or deception.

That fund, paltry though it was, has barely been used.

While certainly not a paltry sum, it doesn't come close to covering his costs, let alone help United earn an additional £50m.

And yet the categories of journalism and the stereotypes of normal conversation are paltry when it comes to predicting a life course.