Sentence examples for the scant amount from inspiring English sources

I prefer to keep things separate; perhaps I'm bad at sharing the scant amount of family that I do have, or fearful of giving someone a glimpse of the few people who really know me.

So here was my father, in this white apartment with textured walls and thick carpeting, and the scant amount of furniture and paintings he'd brought from Redmond, looking like interlopers, like imposters, neither here nor there.

On the other hand, it's also nature that if the street trees are periodically watered deeply, their roots will grow downward toward the moist soil rather than move upward to reach the scant amount of moisture under the concrete, eventually cracking the sidewalks.

Even the scant amount of water in the mantle, which is much drier than the sand in the Sahara, should produce oceans hundreds of meters deep, Elkins-Tanton reports in an upcoming paper in Astrophysics and Space Science.

But the acquisition of the investment banking powerhouse is ill timed: Capital markets activity and mergers and acquisitions are drying up with the bear market, and the scant amount of equity underwriting in 2001 will be horded by top players like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

The scant amount of pubes on show suggests it is a man who trims regularly – perhaps because he's the kind of guy who will gladly send a picture of his own bare balls to a multinational media company.

The Argentine territories, held back by their closed economies, the lack of any activity closely linked to foreign trade, and the scant amounts of labour and capital they consequently received, fell far behind those of other areas of the colonial world that participated in foreign trade.

How are you possibly meant to relax in any way at all in this scant amount of space?

WASHINGTON -- Republicans in Congress are trying to decrease the already scant amount of disclosure for politically-active nonprofits -- known as dark money groups.

While the garlic is poaching in its pan, fry the steaks in a scant amount of olive oil until they are flavor-sealed and heat-darkened outside, but still juicily tender within.

The dressing is a scant amount of olive oil and a generous squeeze of lemon juice.