Sentence examples for paltry sales from inspiring English sources

Ms. Snyder started an audiobook division of the institute that had paltry sales but regularly employed her family members.

January is always a slow period for stores, but nowadays big-box retailers and luxury chains are contending with paltry sales trends and profit margins that have been hurt by excessive discounting to attract consumers.

Honda's American operation, despite paltry sales of hybrid versions of its Accord and Civic models, announced a rousing 13.8% sales spike from last September to 127,200 vehicles.

Even if the books were bringing in paltry sales, hit films like the Batman and Superman series have grossed $1 billion in the U.S., excluding video rentals and sales and an endless parade of merchandise.

Even when the books brought in paltry sales, such hit films as the Batman and Superman series have grossed $1 billion in the U.S., excluding video rentals and sales and an endless parade of merchandise.

He made two paltry sales all day, both dismayingly irrelevant to his current business plan.

The paltry sale price is not much better than a landing in the deadpool, an outcome expected by some since at least last Fall.

That's more than Volkswagen or Dodge and denotes 18 consecutive years of gains — from a paltry 692 sales in 1994.

Between anxious consumers and a flight from impractical sports cars that began well before the recession bushwhacked the economy, what J. D. Power calls the "premium sporty" class — two-seaters, coupes and convertibles above $40,000 — withered to a paltry 89,000 sales last year from 230,000 in 2003.

The paltry 3% sales growth in the U.S. through May was to be expected.

Despite paltry ad sales in other mediums, television ads have held up relatively well in 2002, in part because of heavy political campaign spending as well as a boost from the Salt Lake City Olympics.