Sentence examples for scant pickings from inspiring English sources

It provided scant pickings for Michael Howard, hoping to demonstrate his legal-eagle skills in parliament.

A trawl through the archives for anything said since his arrival at United from Guus Hiddink's PSV Eindhoven in 2005 reveals scant pickings from a man who now has two Premier League titles and might claim a second League Cup winners' medal today against Spurs at Wembley.

Like many pioneers in new surroundings, the first black holes found scant pickings, according to new simulations that mimic conditions in the early universe.

Tickets were sold out last November, an unprecedented feat, but after the slim pickings and dull cricket of Friday and Saturday's washout there can have been scant expectation of anything beyond a slow drift to a draw.

The pickings are slim.

The pickings were slim.

Easy pickings for Reina.

Even so, slim pickings.

(Via Brain Pickings).

Some rich pickings there.

It is slim pickings.