Sentence examples for scant piece from inspiring English sources

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The savory yet scant piece of time spent "post-feasting" on Thanksgiving Day is extremely precious.

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And one of his scant pieces of public commentary about macroeconomic development directly criticizes the World Bank's approach.

Unfortunately, scant pieces of literature discussed that phenomenon, especially in cereals.

After a while, one gives up on the scant attempts of the piece to be hip, a lame "friends of Dorothy" joke included, and begins ticking off stops on the Yellow Brick Road, as our motley quartet sets off to meet the bluff-and-bluster Wizard.

The band onstage tonight bear scant resemblance to the four-piece of 2008-9.

Orchestras usually have scant time to learn new pieces; many famous works went awry at their premieres because of inadequate rehearsal, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

The other is that Laidlaw is in such a deep hole that selling off the company in pieces would yield scant returns for anyone with a financial stake.

Eighteen days after the Cole attack, a visit to the neighborhood on Rock Hill provided important new pieces to the scant, scattered jigsaw puzzle of information that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Yemeni investigators, citing a need not to "chill leads" in the case with premature disclosures, have been willing to divulge.

MTV, which pays scant attention to Broadway, did a major piece on Spring Awakening that, says Pittelman, sent the box office soaring.

"Last night I had three big helpings of potatoes (mashed) and carrots for supper and a scant helping of meatloaf as well as 2 pieces of bread and butter, 2 apricots & a glass of milk".

As the criminal-justice scholar Jeremy Travis wrote, in 2002, legislatures have often adopted collateral consequences in unaccountable ways: "as riders to other, major pieces of legislation," which are "given scant attention".

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