Sentence examples for scant leaf from inspiring English sources

Even their spring is hard won -- the pyrrhic victory of scant leaf from blackened branch.

For example, needle-leaved Canadian evergreens make the most of scant sunlight and their leaf litter feeds the acidic soils that nurture networks of microorganisms, such as nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which in turn, enriches the food for the trees.

The wigwam which once looked in danger of housing just a scant few plants is covered in leaf and flower and pumping out fistfuls of delicious beans: Blauhilde blue and an unknown French green we didn't know we had sown.

Moreover, research on the bioclimatic model of leaf colouring periods is scant (Chuine and Beaubien 2001).

It drew scant attention.

Winds are scant.

Services are scant.

The plotting is scant.

Insurance coverage is scant.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

Specifics were scant.