Sentence examples for scant collection from inspiring English sources

He said the submarine also added to a scant collection of Pearl Harbor artifacts.

And in the small, low-ceilinged rooms of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, with its scant collection of childhood toys, I found a model for the way writerly selves can be forged from less than propitious circumstances.

In a dim room on the ground floor, the shop has a somewhat scant collection of doodads, less raunchy than cheesy — a package of Titaroni Booby-Shaped Pasta ($6.99), his-and-hers genitalia key holders ($25), condom lollipops ($2.99).

In a dim room on the ground floor, the shop has a somewhat scant collection of doodads, less raunchy than cheesy a package of Titaroni Booby-Shaped Pasta ($6.99), his-and-hers genitalia key holders ($25), condom lollipops ($2.99).

I was sure that our scant collection of shared genes meant a good price and even better quality.

It's a crawl space only made human by a scant collection of personal items: prayer cards, porn magazines, car and watch catalogues-things that prove the power of the mafioso is internal rather than external.

AN elaborate and voluminous parlor-level condominium in an unusually wide limestone mansion at 15 East 70th Street, a neighbor of the Frick Collection and scant steps from Central Park, has been listed for sale for the first time in 25 years.

There is no running water, no postal service, no garbage collection and scant rehabilitation for a shattered town where collapsed roofs, missing walls and other scars from the continuing civil war disfigure nearly every building.

But, as the report acknowledges, there is scant evidence that bulk collection of phone data has played an essential role in preventing terrorism.

Rather than destroy these rush jobs after her death, as she requested, Murry had them published in two posthumous collections of scant quality (How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped and the unfinished A Married Man's Story being notable exceptions).

Hokey archetypes, for once, made a scant showing at the collections, which may have added to the general air of relief among retailers who have sometimes had trouble figuring out how they were going to sell men on dressing like cowpokes or porn stars or Kurt Cobain.