Sentence examples for were so meager from inspiring English sources

Their statistics, generally, were so meager that their broadcaster rarely cited them.

Ms. Shaffer's parents were teachers, but salaries were so meager that their five children qualified for reduced price lunches, she said.

But lending and insurance in the quake region were so meager before the earthquake that bank and insurance analysts say the effect will be negligible.

One laborer asked why Alcoa's profit-sharing payments, required by Mexican law, were so meager, especially as Acuña plants appear profitable and Mr. O'Neill had exercised $33 million in stock options beyond his $3 million salary in 1999.

Although Pietro Como's circumstances were so meager that he had to buy food on the installment plan, he found the money to give each of his children music lessons.

Was it because the sales of Doniger's book were so meager that it didn't justify continuing the case they were contesting in court, a case they would almost certainly have won, given the generally liberal track record of India's higher courts?

The reason is that they are so meager.

Meals are so meager that many boys lose weight.

The recovery has been so meager that unemployment lingers at historically high levels.

Or perhaps you're puzzled that improvement has been so meager.

The big question about the Native North American section is why it is so meager.