Sentence examples for scant education from inspiring English sources

Most prostitutes are middle-aged, with scant education and no job prospects or connections.

They were born in the dark years of the Depression, many to immigrants with scant education.

With no papers and scant education and English skills, few could walk away from even the lousiest jobs.

Sarah Edmonson received scant education as a child, and sometime in the 1850s she ran away from home.

The most vulnerable among them — single mothers and older women with scant education — are the most fearful of foreign competition.

Many, he said, deserve their label as mere sports factories that scant education and a student's overall growth.

Some said the populist former goat herd, with scant formal education, was not up to the job.

One of ten children born to a worker in the textile mills of Lodz, he was reared by his siblings and had scant formal education.

He was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, in 1902, which made him the same age as my father, and, like him, Zanuck had scant formal education.

He wed her hurriedly; they escaped, and lived to celebrate 68 years of marriage.In post-war Poland he scraped a living as a journalist and critic, escaping to West Germany in 1958 penniless and with scant formal education.

My family had scant formal education, but I was lucky enough to be the only child in a three-generation household, with aunts and grown-up cousins next door.