Sentence examples for scant hours from inspiring English sources

But scant hours after her election, residents were already anticipating Mrs. Clinton's next move.

Within scant hours of their arrival in San Bernardino, some in the convoy turned around for home.

But imagine if they already knew of your scant hours of sleep by logging onto an online dashboard of your personal biometric information.

What could we do to while away the few scant hours until our grisly deaths at the hands of marauding robot hordes without Angry Birds or Temple Run?

Despite scant hours, I was able to peek inside five properties on a recent Saturday, while getting a glimpse of some of the area's most charming neighborhoods — from Pasadena to Pacific Palisades.

The old sexist idea that women only needed "pin money" helped keep jobs like those at Walmart low-paid (and contributed to the scant hours), even as these jobs became ubiquitous throughout the economy and more people came to rely on them for their entire income – Demos, for instance, notes that retail sales is the most common job sector in America now.

Yet here I am, a scant hour after the event, conspicuously clean and unsullied by blood.

Ms. Knightley is Elizabeth Swann, owner of a medallion that gets the plot going a scant hour into "Pirates".

Although it lasts a scant hour and half, "Orange County" often feels like six different movies fighting each other for attention.

Although it lasts a scant hour and half, "Orange County" often feels like six different movies fighting one another for attention.

Although it lasts a scant hour and a half, "Orange County" often feels like six different movies fighting one another for attention.