Sentence examples for scantiness from inspiring English sources

The scantiness of the material (fewer than 300 words) makes it impossible to be sure of the relationship of this language to Germanic and its daughter languages.

Even allowing for the scantiness of the documentation that survives, the Egyptian achievement in mathematics must be viewed as modest.

It's a low-budget movie, made for the low-rent studio Republic Pictures, and its threadbare production is apparent in the scantiness of the sets and the spectacle (as well as in the low wattage of the lead actors).

The New Yorker, September 12 , 1925P. 3 Some of those who journeyed to Atlantic City for early view of "The Green Hat" commented on the scantiness of stage version as compared with book.

Rolls of dimes, shivs and brass knuckles are unlikely to be spotted by each game's one-man officiating crew, despite the scantiness of the singlets.