Sentence examples for two scant from inspiring English sources

In Bartlesville, Okla., my water pump failed and I limped into a repair shop that happened to be two scant blocks from Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower.

Writing in The New York Times in 2006, William Safire, who knew from language mavens, called Mr. Steinmetz a "lexical supermaven," an accolade that in two scant words draws exuberantly on Greek, Latin, Yiddish and Hebrew.

We got him elected against all odds two scant years ago.

I am sitting two scant yards from Trump père et fille at a media briefing for the Trump International Golf Course, which is being built by the Emirati firm DAMAC Properties in conjunction with Donald Trump Townhouses and Villas.

For one, scant testing existed on the question of whether acetaminophen lowered hydrocodone's abuse.

I looked at my yellow legal pad, which contained three scant pages of notes, and thought: how am I going to get anything out of this?

Though there are inevitable gaps (there's one scant reference to Billie Holiday, for instance, and her name is misspelled), most of the major figures are here, from politics, religion, scholarship, entertainment, sports.

It went to his head and after four scant years in Washington, he thought he should be president.

I don't quite understand how Christians who cite these six scant verses in the Bible that condemn homosexuality conveniently ignore some of the more extreme laws.

Just three scant years after I met him on the banks of the Iowa River, I read where President Obama and Kathleen Merrigan "outlined a broad array of efforts to elevate organic and local farming to a prominence never seen before at the sprawling U.S. Department of Agriculture".

Place one teaspoon of Ndu loose tea in one scant cup of water.