How To Use Exiguous In A Sentence
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I could with but slight difficulty find my way back to Jon IV, or Jon X, or Jon CLXXVI, Dei gratia capitulum, but Messrs. D & M do not even accord me that exiguous courtesy.
Quakers in Spain
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Given these exiguous resources, Faulkner's political achievements down to the end of 1973 were not inconsiderable.
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My, you gave me an exiguous amount of time to answer that!
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The same Sunday Times which, in among exposés of torrid love affairs between teachers and schoolgirls in country towns, in among pictures of pouting starlets in exiguous bikinis, comes out with revelations of atrocities committed by the security forces, reports that the minister of the interior has granted a visa allowing Breyten Breytenbach to come back to the land of his birth to visit his ailing parents.
From 'Summertime': Notebooks 1972–1975
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The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe; and in the hands of the skilled bricklayer,
The Wrong Box
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this kind of immigrant group " basically live in the United States' mid countryside, signs of human habitation is exiguous .
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The schizoid character of this ‘exiguous’ condition is compounded by the fact that the attitude of belonging to two cultures is often not shared by the majority culture.
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Of course I have other reasons for thinking so -- dozens of exiguous threads which lead vaguely up towards the centre of the web where the poisonous, motionless creature is lurking.
Chennai
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His exiguous chapter on slavery in American Notes was lazily annexed word-for-word from a famous abolitionist pamphlet of the day, and employed chiefly to discredit the whole American idea.
The Dark Side of Dickens
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So, I went to China with an exiguous expense account, a list of places to be visited and described and a very rudimentary command of Mandarin.
A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons
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The second one is that the relatively exiguous constraints on some obnoxious weapons are useless when an occupying power decides that it is at war with a population.
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Given the still exiguous literature of colour in art we can not expect to contribute to a running debate.
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This process is invoked to explain not only dream images, but any kind of mental impression, including impressions constituting voluntary thought: the latter occurs when we attend to one or another of the exiguous physical films that are continuously floating through the air.
Epicurus
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He felt insecure because his Catholic education was so exiguous — it amounted to one year at a Jesuit prep school in England.
Daredevil
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If Lillian's dessert plate was festooned with candied violets, mine would have an exiguous broken petal or two.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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The judge attempted to do his best on exiguous material to measure the unmeasurable and in the result awarded compensation for the uncompensatable.
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an exiguous budget
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It has a downtown so exiguous that a pedestrian outside its biggest office building at 9 on a weekday morning is a phenomenon as singular as a cow in Times Square.
Bye-Bye, Suburban Dream
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A lot of the fun of reading these papers is seeing how an exiguous collection of commitments plays out in so many different domains.
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Even the clouds glimpsed in crevices between buildings above Wall Street are sliced into exiguous triangles.
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So the charge made for the accommodation during her lifetime was the nominal charge referable to her exiguous state retirement pension.
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Looking at them pegged on the line they look somewhat exiguous in nature.
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I could with but slight difficulty find my way back to Jon IV, or Jon X, or Jon CLXXVI, Dei gratia capitulum, but Messrs. D & M do not even accord me that exiguous courtesy.
Quakers in Spain
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The next step was to take the plug off the flex of the pump, and thread it through the exiguous drainage hole.
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If Lillian's dessert plate was festooned with candied violets, mine would have an exiguous broken petal or two.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES