Sentence examples for paltry thing from inspiring English sources
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
This paltry thing – Margot's life – she wants it and she will do what is necessary to take it.
"Arranging colours on a canvas is a paltry thing compared with what calls out to be explored".
(Not that Pinter, who died in 2008, may have thought much of the value of experience; Spooner calls it "a paltry thing" and remarks, "Everyone has it").
The checkpoint outside town was a paltry thing, with just a few anti-aircraft guns, a lot of trash, and a small throng of worried-looking young rebels.
The political victory that that effort provided will eventually be a paltry thing compared with the actual human transcendence that it initiated, however fitfully so far.
Perhaps something could be done along these lines, but it would be a poor, paltry, truncated, trifling thing.
Reading or imagining a Twitter post can bear only paltry resemblance to the real thing.
(There's another story to tell here, too, about how Yahoo will need to start making good use of all its new acquisitions and talent fast to turn around things like that paltry Flickr mobile audience share. Another time).
It wasn't until I tried to purchase the necessary things with that paltry salary in New York City that I started to realize for the first time what it really means to be an immigrant in the United States.
My right index finger — the only digit precise enough to hit the close-set virtual iPhone keys — seemed an anemic, cerebral thing, designed for making paltry points in debating club.
