Sentence examples for scant of from inspiring English sources
Gertrude says he is "fat and scant of breath".
Evidence was so scant of the alleged coup-plotting that those charges had to be dropped.
"Scant of virility," accused Ivor Brown, "with the most meaningless legs imaginable".
"Augustown" doesn't match the stereotype of a "poet's novel"—that is, it isn't introspective, replete with long passages of description, and scant of plot.
Scant of surface and image, with glancing, uneasy brushwork, they imply a divided attention and a reliance on pictorial short cuts and ambiguities to disguise limited skills.
In the face of scant evidence of voter fraud, there is no reason to increase barriers to voting.
The dissolution of the monasteries was only partial, and, because of the scant knowledge of English, liturgical changes were few.
Despite the zappy pace, there is no scanting of investment and investigation by the author.
The Iranian elite should take note of the scant returns of the country's nuclear efforts to date.
If Bellow did so as well, it's not part of his scant quartet of film essays.
