Sentence examples for though paltry from inspiring English sources

In 1977, Yitzhak Rabin resigned from his first term when it was discovered that his wife, Leah, had maintained an illegal, though paltry, foreign bank account after he served as Ambassador to Washington.

While reviewing the album, Emily Mackay of NME talked about the video for "Ghost", "Some joyous shagging songs, though, are paltry excitement beside that of seeing an artist of such fame, long held as iconic without enough genuinely exciting music to back it up, reach her full throttle of awesomeness.

The Catamounts were hardly ferocious, though, scoring a paltry three points in the first six minutes of play and often putting up marginal resistance to the Trojans.

Though the paltry attendance was due mostly to the snowstorm, the Nets have not won any local popularity contests this season, losing six of their first eight games here.

In February, newspaper publishers in Belgium won their case for copyright infringement over extracts used by Google in its search index, though the paltry £17,000 will be less or a concern than the precedent.

The uptick in streaming of electronic music is a small bright spot on the landscape, though the paltry fee artists collect on streaming leaves little to celebrate there.

That fund, paltry though it was, has barely been used.

Their resolutions, though, were a paltry 0.3 and 0.7 megapixels respectively.

I'm open to trying my luck on the romance market once more, paltry though the pickings are in New York.

Alan has troubles of his own, though they seem paltry by comparison: a frozen marriage, plus a patient (Saffron Burrows) who keeps offering her sexual services.

Paltry though the sum seems, it is more than twice the amount received by the next closest recipient in the mayoral race, Joseph J. Lhota, a Republican, according to records compiled by the public affairs lobbying organization Common Cause.