Sentence examples for paltry word from inspiring English sources

This would directly address the problem of PBIS resulting from data-driven picking and choosing of functional forms (though it might require the cooperation of previous authors to provide details about what analysis they reported, given the typically abbreviated reporting of methods in published papers – another problem with paltry word limits).

BY image-obsessed Western standards, one picture is worth, absolute minimum, a thousand paltry words.

(6)...where "paltry", a word for "mean", just about sounds like POULTRY - "just about" perhaps accounted for by the question mark at the end of the clue.

Pretty paltry stuff, words, next to the hubbub of Harlem, the unfashionable place it was and is no longer.

Of course his words are paltry and inadequate – the words we say to each other often are.

Mystics without Wordsworth's poetic gifts often turn silent, the paltry reach of words wholly inadequate to the loftiness of their "elevated thoughts".

Of course, to people outside of our frothy Web economy, another word for "paltry" could be "reasonably valued"– this is a company that takes pains not to hype itself despite a revolving door of celebrities and a Twitter segment on nearly every news and entertainment show.

Words are paltry replacements, after all, when Norman Mailer is biting off someone's ear in the Hamptons or Harold Pinter is reading to you by candlelight.

Like Hill, you either find them funny or you don't and the paltry resources of the written word cannot hope to transport you from the latter to the former camp.

Having grown up in rural New Mexico, where homosexuality was still taboo and sex education was paltry at best, those three words terrified me.

The fact that "Georgia contributes more to international operations than most existing members of NATO," in Kramer's and Wilson's words, illustrates the paltry nature of others' efforts, not the bountiful role played by Tbilisi.