Sentence examples for with a scant from inspiring English sources

The Bicentennial Commission has since brought out a free pocketsize version, but with a scant chronology.

Let's hope that Barr promptly turns over the report with a scant number of redactions.

There are toppings listed on a chalkboard, along with a scant menu of wines and beer.

Toss each cup of fruit with a scant tablespoon of sugar to reduce browning.

Working with a scant crew, he blends fiction and documentary with a graceful splendor of Impressionist inspiration.

The government provided each of them with a scant 55 pounds of seed, as well as subsidized fertilizer — enough for a small plot.

Fill the shell with a scant teaspoon of the spinach filling, together with a small cube of feta or your choice of cheese.

That's within the margin of error, and the polling average shows Ernst with a scant two point lead, though that could reflect a post-primary-win bump.

Mr. Bax adopted a clean, unfussy approach, letting notes work their spell with only a scant intimation of Romantic elasticity.

But the friendship with Shaw is raced past sketchily, and Maugham — whom I spent the book waiting to see — is unforgivably dealt with in a scant footnote.

Kelly Corrigan, who has been with us a scant three days longer than Katie, is our new editorial assistant.