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Sentence Examples I was being jerked around in my seat like a rag doll and in fear I reached for the dash to provide some form of meagre support. They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none. He said it was a scandal that the party in Skipton should give such meagre aid to the organisation's funds. Around her was a scattering of men, women and children in ragged clothes, their meagre belongings next to them. Forget the tiny sprig strategically placed on a lemon sole or the meagre pinch of mint in a pan of potatoes. All the same he would queue up with the other drones for hours to receive his meagre earnings. Despite meagre attempts to beautify the grounds with flowers and shrubs, there was no denying that this was a grim and cheerless place. Although she was managing to get by on the meagre salary she drew tutoring primary-school children after school, it most likely wouldn't last. He had laid off some heavy bets recently and his meagre earnings as a postman would not cover them. She totes around a spell book and spends her meagre allowance on bells and mirrors to help her spells and charms. I've worked and studied hard for my success, and know what's it's like to live on meagre funds. I'd love to subscribe, but it costs nearly a thousand bucks with our meagre currency! Railway workers prayed silently before their meagre meal, coaxed from the heat of a charcoal brazier. When a team is embroiled in a relegation battle a meagre point never seems quite enough to quench the fear of the unthinkable. I don't think that the Inland Revenue would be overly troubled by the meagre income generated by my merchandising boutique. Just as a Bombay duck is a type of curried fish and a Yarmouth capon is a herring, so a Welsh rabbit is a meagre substitute for the real thing. Also due to the meagre treatment and rehabilitation facilities, the family must act as an umbrella to protect, nurture and sustain its members. Compared with the blockbusting novelists of our age, this was a meagre output. He has white hair and a black suit and a watch chain across his meagre belly. By mischance the second not was omitted and gave the impression that the inhabitants of Pakistan were delighted with their meagre rations. Show More Sentences This was belted, and a drawstring pouch was suspended from this containing, perhaps, his rosary and few meagre belongings. They are patronised mainly by the under-classes, including domestic servants, whose tithe is too meagre for congregational development. He now spends his days driving his weakening cattle back and forth across the valley first to find meagre pasture and then to find water. Another ambition was to categorise the meagre extant material held in archives. There are some horrors in Rose's memories and the distrainment of a poor household's meagre possessions is hardly cheerful. Mark Smith used his little travelling first aid kit to administer to the injured, using what meagre resources he had to help as best he could. The gina-ginas are no more than scraps of faded blue cotton stuff on their meagre bodies. Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases. They are completely dependent on the meagre rations provided by the Colombo government. The meagre supplies she had brought had not lasted long with her ravenous hunger. It is this strong belief in luck that leads many to gamble their meagre savings in the hope of becoming rich. They are poor farmers who could never easily afford expensive chemicals used in intensive farming, going organic to boost their meagre incomes. Railways' have only a meagre capacity for manufacturing wagons in their workshops. Visitors to the temple used to worship the deity in the morning and the crowd for the evening ceremony would be meagre. The meagre is not called croaker, but it can and does make the noise which gives their name to croakers. The north-east is a strategic area and yet coverage of events there is pathetically meagre. Through a gap in the branches, only the most meagre stretch of water could be fished before the fly dragged hopelessly across the surface. He wiped moisture from his muzzle and ducked back under the meagre cover his crude lean-to offered. He didn't find it, and just plopped down tiredly on the age-worn bed, curling up in the meagre warmth of the threadbare blanket. City often rode their luck but looked ready to take their time, be patient and seize any meagre opportunities that came their way. Show More Sentences Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire. The sidewalk is narrow and the pedestrian is buffeted on one side by traffic, on the other by the proximity of the plunge and the meagre hip-height railing. The meagre resources of Queen Anne's Bounty could not adequately address the internal structural problems of the church, which seriously hampered its pastoral efficiency. For many men, playing the stockmarket is a profitable adjunct to supplement otherwise meagre incomes from the sale of surplus rice, coffee, cloves and vegetables. So at the end of every day in the run up to a grant payment, I and a few others would pool whatever meagre amount we had into a pot, and play cards for it. My body is telling me I will burn other substrates before I'll burn fat and just the most meagre consumption of carbohydrate will switch off that ketotic response. The humble earthenware teapot rests on the red lacquered side-table which was listed after her death in the meagre inventory of Marguerite's possessions. My mother did rubber latex tapping for a meagre wage to feed us. At the moment the boys exist on an unchanging and meagre diet of bread and milk for breakfast, potato and rice for lunch and thin vegetable soup for dinner. In a household where one of the parents was a newly graduated professor of linguistics and the other an artist, income was usually rather meagre and spasmodic in nature. Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share. Shadows offered only meagre protection, but it was protection I was thankful for as I listened to her footsteps come down the hall toward me, the steps slow and measured. Long waiting lists, a meagre state health budget and inadequate hospital services prompted the three men to raise cash and build their own hospital on the southside of Dublin. And from what I've seen, you're pretty content with your meagre wardrobe. He began to drink heavily, left London in 1914, and spent the rest of his life roaming around Ireland, living off meagre earnings from hastily scribbled articles and stories. She seemed so meagre and weak, like her body had lost that glow. As a result they don't capture the learning potential of successful health initiatives developed in countries long honed to making the best of meagre resources. Which traditional mat weaver will substitute the billhook and knife, especially when even the National Bamboo Mission puts his average daily income at a meagre Rs.30 a day? In the texts of the period, there were no spaces between words, punctuation was meagre, and reading depended on a capacity to see patterns in the unbroken lines. The captain's family would sleep in the quarters situated in the butty boat, a cabin of meagre proportions which makes today's touring caravans look vast. Show More Sentences Whereas the humble brownie survives on a meagre diet of crustaceans and fly life, the ferox is a committed cannibal, feeding largely on young fish of its own species. I searched in vain for a patch of sundews, the little carnivorous plants that live in just this kind of environment, so I could show off my meagre botanical knowledge. Her people had to carry water from a meagre source three ridges away. The unfortunate part of this story is that the container is too large for the meagre space that I've allotted for lip gloss in my already overstuffed purse. Trade unions, however, are generally not recognised, and most of them spend a good deal of their time and energy trying to get their meagre wages and overtime paid on time. While the meagre group of forwards in the squad has been remarked upon from the start, the consequences hit home all the harder in the tournament. She was floundering in the deep pool, the water getting steadily deeper instead of shallower, her meagre supply of strength rapidly sapping as she struggled. Zuma worked as a cowherd to supplement his mother's meagre income. Thus, while one version puts her to work at a loom in a factory, and has her living in a garret, another has her earning a meagre crust as a teacher in London. The door-pulls and the gear lever are in translucent coloured plastic, and the rear seats individually slide, fold and stow away to enlarge the meagre boot. This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement. Campo has used her meagre savings, volunteers, small donations and the good-hearted service of cheap vets to sterilize, test and debug the cats and return them to health. The influx of indigents overwhelmed the city's meagre social services and affordable accommodation. Four out of every five women are forced to stay at home or scrunt for a meagre existence. Though it is a meagre source of food compared to grass when there is no grass, Salvation Jane may just save the day for a hungry herd. She lived a life of luxury in the grand cabin while the crew were fed on meagre rotting rations. Information on Wilfrid's life at this time is meagre, as the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi says little of this period. The Back of the Wight had a meagre and fragile economy at the time so this increased the hardships on the area by killing many of the population. These patches are but meagre second growth, with here and there a gnarled birch or overpeering pine, lonely survivor of the primeval brotherhood. Fossil finds from North America have been meagre compared with Europe, which has a richer fossil record. Show More Sentences In general, these tactics enabled Vikings to quickly destroy the meagre opposition posted during raids. Constantine now gave Maxentius his meagre support, offering Maxentius political recognition. Experimental acoustic telemetry experiment reveals strong site fidelity during the sexual resting period of wild brown meagre, Sciaena umbra. A shocked Sullivan had no choice but to position the meagre 'second line' to fill the gaps. The New Bombay project acquired large amounts of agricultural and saltpan land from peasants in 95 villages for meagre cash compensation. On December 21, 1844, they opened their store with a very meagre selection of butter, sugar, flour, oatmeal and a few candles. The club will attempt to boost their meagre finances with a sponsored absail off the Tyne Bridge that weekend involving coach Paul Fletcher. In the late 18th and 19th centuries people known as Mudlarks scavenged in the river mud for a meagre living. Sales of both books were poor, resulting in Thomas living on meagre fees from writing and reviewing. Day two began positively for the Australians, with Jones being bowled for 25 off Brett Lee, and Matthew Hoggard managing a meagre 2 before being dismissed by McGrath. He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite. Sources for William's actions between 1082 and 1084 are meagre. Finally a few professions received only meagre ranks, as with the lowest poets, and the authors may be actively making fun of some of the professions, such as comb makers. In the next bed, I remember, there was an old man so meagre, so cadaverous that his wristbones and the beak of his nose seemed to want to break through his skin. And he did it all on a meagre budget of seven francs a day, surviving mostly on milk, water and fruit either bought from roadside sellers or scrumped from roadside orchards. In other words, Kirklees Council is concentrating its meagre resources on those few roads in the district which will be whooshed over by Chris Froome and co next summer. Indeed so meagre is the matter, so flimsy the arguments, and so unmedically are they expressed, that I scarcely believe the work was written by a medical man at all. Certain it is that out of the lavish pin-money which her father gave her as a free gift from time to time, she only doled out a meagre allowance to her husband. Examples from Classical Literature But once they had begun with the meagre child, the adipose old man, the lean or flabby youth, they went on through thick and thin. The narrative of the maldon poem is not pinched nor meagre in its proportions. On occasion, the eighty-eighth could do their work on meagre diet as well, or better than any other corps. She was very tall, built on the lines of a beauty transcending our meagre strain. The place is not frequented by plutocratic tourists, and so her tips are meagre. He was a meagre little fellow, with a long neck and a white face and sunken cheeks, a pigeon breast, and a big stomach. There were no words in her meagre vocabulary to voice her bitterness of heart. This meagre diet was probably the cause of the agues which were once very common, especially in the country districts. A tall stripling of a Moravian youth, meagre as a sign-post, was the beerhouse Ganymede. Trees are also very rare on that spot, and these poor, meagre, and cancerous. There was only the most meagre pretense at greeting when these men came face to face. How vapid, meagre, frigid, and unaffecting has been the performance of this part since Mr. Kembles reign. It was covered with mossy hillocks, and with a short grass, meagre but sweet. In Damaraland missionaries have labored earnestly for many years, but the results thus far have been meagre. Now your pickerel, be he ever so meagre, is of course a nobler fish than your hornpout, and there is more glory in his capture. So their history is now derivable from other sources, which, at best, are very meagre. As soon as his meagre back was turned Knight stooped and retrieved the letter in its envelope, unscorched, from the fireplace. The illustrations are inexact, and the explanations are meagre and unsatisfactory. The net result of his fusillade of interrogatories, however, was exceedingly meagre. At one end was an oil stove, with a meagre supply of crockery and ironware above. Show More Sentences How does the voice indicate the contrast between the meagre and the sumptuous? It is known that Daumier, lithographer, and painter of genius, was held in meagre esteem by the academicians. She has two daughters, who, except that one is decidedly pretty, are meagre imitations of herself. But even this meagre satisfaction was soon to be denied him, for presently the flier commenced to sag toward the port and by the bow. There was a meagre portico of four columns, painted red, and a plain pediment, painted yellow. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. And even before this fall, many believed the US' engagement with Africa was meagre and slow-footed to begin with. Prasad's ill humor was plainly marked in his meagre appetite. Her figure was meagre, her face seemed all teeth and eyes, her references to her sister and brother were uncharitable. She was the most meagre craft, in the way of outfit, I ever put to sea in. They were too poor to give him any but the most meagre education. Dugald Stewart's meagre definition may serve us for a starting point. The income derived from this source was, however, but a meagre one. In the kitchen of Roberts's cottage a meagre little fire is burning. His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow. These fasts and vigils made him meagre and haggard, and probably caused him to appear as if he hardly belonged to the world. He was professor of physics in the high school, possessor of a large family, a meagre salary, and a select fund of parrot-learned knowledge. How mean, meagre, narrow, and poverty-stricken must be their lives! He was a pale, simple-looking man, of a spare and meagre habit, and sat among his flowers and beehives, smoking his pipe, in the little porch before his door. The name says, indeed, so exactly and so fully what they are that little remains for their bibliographer to add beyond the meagre historical detail here given. Show More Sentences The pinched and meagre aspect of the place would have killed a chameleon. Their meagre physical experiences, plus their meagre intellectual experiences, made a negative sum so vast that it overbalanced their wholesome morality and healthful sports. They were forced to content themselves with those four stretches of rubble work, backed with sandstone, and a wretched stone gibbet, meagre and bare, on one side. Find more words! 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