Sentence examples for rather paltry from inspiring English sources
Even if the charge had stuck, it's rather paltry, given the transgressions here.
New York's budget of $347,000 is rather paltry by comparison.
It simply allows you to affirm your existence, and to feel you have released something, which both seem rather paltry.
Alas, the asset side of the federal balance sheet is rather paltry, compared with the liability side.
(Medley guesses that he and his girlfriend share a library upwards of one thousand books, a number he considers "rather paltry").
With a population approaching 30 million and very large annual healthcare expenses, it would appear that the level of clinical trial activity within the Kingdom during the past 15 years has been rather paltry.
"There are at least 50 restaurants in England as good as the two-star restaurants over there, rather than the paltry 10 that currently hold that number".
Slightly more tinted but still feathery light is Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion, the company's best-selling product that claims to work for 24 hours, rather than a paltry half day.
If we go out a few more years, iPods and similar devices will be able to store massive numbers of movies, rather than the paltry one or two you can carry around today.
Crepeau has argued that in order to quell demand for migrant smuggling by sea, western countries need to make a credible commitment to welcoming as many as one million Syrian refugees, rather than a paltry 20,000.
My words were wasted, Owen was: a) far too demob happy for his own good and b) needing a more realistic timeframe of six years rather than six paltry weeks to turn into the student I had in mind.
