meager

How To Use meager In A Sentence

• He wasn't a large man, and had never been the sporty type, so there were no golf clubs or baseball bats lying handily around, and the notion of overpowering a hulking burglar with the meagre physical means at his disposal was laughable. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• Would I have reached university if my parents had needed to divide their meagre resources? Times, Sunday Times
• Into this battered relic, she put her own meager possessions. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
• 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.
• In a language that invents descriptive terms with drunken abandon, all food writers suffer from the meagre cupboard of gastronomic terms. Times, Sunday Times
• Its meager light provided the group its only means of illumination.
• The present display provides meagre rations of all three. Times, Sunday Times
• The crude items of every day use that were the few meager processions of the poor have become the prestige consumption of the affluent.
• But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
• The government offers meager help: a $130 annual payment to each widow, and a ration card for rice and oil.