Sentence examples for some scant from inspiring English sources

There was some scant consolation for the party.

He gives us a set, a few props, some scant stage directions, and lets us imagine the rest.

The Yellow Birds is a must-read book, not only because it bears witness to this particular war, but also because it ekes out some scant but vital vision of humanity from its shame and incomprehensible violence.

If this lamb and lion can lie down together some scant 60 years after a horrible war, why cannot the other combatants find some way to accommodate and especially trade with one another?

Among the manuscripts and letters that he deposited in the Ashmolean Museum towards the end of his life were some scant autobiographical jottings, "to be interponed as a sheet of wast-paper only in the binding of a booke".

Most notably were some scant details about Dell's netbook that's supposed to be released this year.

He has also been on a mission to re-energize the art form by recruiting directors from theater and film, even some with scant experience in opera.

The fact is, however, that 17-year-old Hae Min Lee really was killed in 1999, her family still mourn her, and Syed really is serving life in prison on some pretty scant evidence.

A review by the ATSDR of the toxicologic and epidemiologic literature on effects of mixtures (ATSDR 2004) found some, but scant, evidence for synergisms from exposures to multiple chemical agents.

I've tried them all and, while some seem a scant improvement on their forefathers, some are revelatory.

But for some, that is scant comfort.