Sentence examples for scant slice from inspiring English sources
Still, it's unreasonable to expect this book to be able to offer much more than what its author endearingly describes as "a scant slice of a deep and nuanced pie".
Six years later, in the scant light that sliced through the grates, he armed himself with 40 cans of spray paint and created his first image, a re-creation of the "Mona Lisa".
Shave a scant 1/4-inch-thick slice off one side of each sprout and put cut side down.
Yet Chilean sea bass was not only overcooked but oversalted, with a few orange slices providing scant accompaniment.
VEAL WITH CHANTERELLES Adapted from "The Lutece Cookbook" by Andre Soltner with Seymour Britchky (Knopf, 1995) Time: 25 minutes 8 1/2-inch-thick slices boned veal loin, carefully trimmed Salt and freshly ground black pepper All-purpose flour 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 pound fresh chanterelles, wiped clean, trimmed and sliced 1 ounce Madeira 3/4 cup heavy cream 1 scant tablespoon chopped parsley.
But if the 1940s, why not a scant two decades before, when Iraq's straight-line frontiers were established by the victorious allies, so slicing this arbitrary entity into being from the cooling corpse of the Ottoman Empire's caliphate?
