Sentence examples for take scant from inspiring English sources
I take scant comfort from those words," Finch says.
With the exception of Bauke Mollema and possibly Adam Yates, Froome's rivals could take scant encouragement from an afternoon spent fighting the wind over the plateau running westwards into the Ardèche.
When experts wielding charts and graphs refer to "bottoms" and spells of "negative growth," the jobless take scant consolation, I have a hunch.
The youngest generation of Finnish classical composers has taken scant interest in the "Kalevala," but the epic seems to intrigue young musicians of a more popular stripe.
He takes scant comfort from the plainclothes policemen now riding the buses, armed with an artist's impression of the killer.
His first acts are commonly his best, with the third a hasty cutting of knots or tying up of loose ends that takes scant account both of probability and of psychology.
Growing up in London, Faith has taken scant interest in her parents' homeland, nor has she experienced the full force of the widespread but subtle racism characteristic of 1980s Britain.
Beset by various anxieties and phobias, Bessie withdraws into the narrowest of existences, taking scant joy in her two children and none at all in her good-hearted barrister husband.
The terrorists in question were locked up, a bomb was dropped on an alleged pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and the nation moved on, taking scant precautions against future terrorism and re-embracing the good times.
But the broader point is that Mr Miliband's stance takes scant account of the security pressures raised by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the argument that fracking might be the better long-term solution or the flagging case for renewables, on which he campaigned in his Green Ed phase for the Labour top job.
Yet before that issue is addressed, there's another question to be resolved, starting from around 3.22pm CT on Saturday afternoon — who will be the MLS Cup 2013 winners, and who will be the losers taking scant consolation from earning their victorious opponents' respect?
