How To Use Measly In A Sentence
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He had made that long trek here for a few measly minutes of conversation.
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Still, the UN peacekeeping budget of US2. 17 billion dollars is described as "measly" compared with America's staggering US350 billion military budget for this year.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Did I say a few measly hours ago that I was homesick?
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They're soggy, with measly amounts of filling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even if 2,326 votes polled by Jammu State Morcha were to be added to the BJP tally, it added up to a measly 5,493.
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I feel somewhat like a measly ant pestering a magnificent tiger who has chosen to sleep on an anthill.
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The tapeworms, common in many animals and often occurring in man, the roundworms of which the trichina (Fig. 3) that causes "measly" pork is a representative, are familiar examples.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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She claimed she paid her house cleaner 200 pesos per day, with a kind of resentful disdain as to why one would even consider such a measly wage.
A decent wage.
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I am enjoying the WSJ and all of the other hacks/pundits yammering about his 'measly' 30mil looking like complete idiots.
Obama's Money: $50 Million Raised For Primary, But It Doesn't Matter
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But the price had skyrocketed so much that her entire savings converted into just a few measly taels.
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The highest rating that movie got was three measly stars.
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Six wins from 20 outings is a measly return, but one that reflects their recent performances.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a good few minutes the poor pigeon struggled with his measly prize, nibbling at it in earnest, each peck accidentally flinging it over his head and way behind him.
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She hated the long hours, the measly wages, the heat of the kitchen, and most of all, she hated that she never saw Noah.
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So France won the Championship having a better points difference than ourselves by a measly four points.
Times, Sunday Times
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The average British bathroom measures a measly 3.5 square metres.
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Why can't you sell us just one measly bag of your rice?
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Adding to the pressure on the company, investors are groaning about measly profit margins the company has reported.
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My fear is that many would rather not bother, especially given the measly amount of fees that the Government is likely to cover.
Times, Sunday Times
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The last time we had met the C.O., he released a measly sum of Rs. 2000 to each panchayat, which is not enough even for tea and snacks chai-nashta.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Try video - where both latency and bandwidth matter - or VOIP where the bandwidth is a measly 64Kbps but where latency matters.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Intel is making a Mesh Move
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We need to think about the nuns who stood at a sink for 60 years washing delph to augment the measly contribution of the state to the care of the young.
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She could barely pay the rent off of the measly tips that the patrons were giving, and her wages were too low to provide her with any material comfort.
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Those who live abroad sometimes have a tendency to give a measly sum, say $50, thinking of the multiplicative factor of the exchange rate.
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Src had been so easy to isolate and identify as a cancer-causing gene, Weinberg knew, because Rous sarcoma virus possesses a measly four genes.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Translating all of this into potential GDP growth, Schnapp figures we're looking at a measly 1% to 1.5% for the rest of the year and even punier 1% growth in 2011.
Dan Dorfman: Lady Dracula's Gory Jobs Story
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This town needs this measly one-horse institution if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Potter.
A warped, frustrated old man
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Less than a week ago, Reliance (the largest CDMA player) introduced the option of choosing between 1 paise per sms (a measly 0.02 cents) or 1 rupee for unlimited SMS per day (2 cents per day).
2009 December « One Size Fits One
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Alas, it was not to be, so we're stuck with a measly 20GB hard drive.
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The beauty of the canape is that the more measly it is, the drunker everybody will get, and the greater the possibility that they'll wake up in the morning with bigger things on their minds than the quality of your catering.
Prince Charles ditches the dinner party
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You have to care, otherwise you wouldn't work so hard to save one "measly" animal.
Sparky Saved
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The average British bathroom measures a measly 3.5 square metres.
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She will leave a square meal especially ordered for her, and gotten up by an imported chef, to fill her measly hide full of straw from a boarding-house bedtick, if she can only steal it.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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Add up all those measly little pennies and the total cost for one slice of pizza comes to 78 cents.
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He gave us measly little portions of cake.
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To enforce the Horse Protection Act, enacted to halt the widespread and abusive practice of "soring" -- where intense pain is deliberately inflicted on show horses 'legs and hooves to make them step higher in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry -- the federal government invests a measly $500,000.
Wayne Pacelle: Pork Industry Bailout Request Full of Fat
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= -- This is developed in man after eating "measly" beef or pork.
The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)
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In just over a decade, sales of Chilean wine have increased from a measly 14,000 cases a year in 1990 to 820,000 cases a year last year.
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All that work to find out that I owe less than - wait for it - a measly £7!
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Under the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act, which is now languishing in the House, the Senate passed a version which only included a measly six cents more for school lunches, which are already shrink-wrapped concoctions of highly processed fat - and sugar-laden meals.
Sarah Newman: Dinner in the Desert
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A measly four goals in 20 appearances tells only half the story.
Times, Sunday Times
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All fans get is a measly theatrical trailer for the film.
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He was about six feet tall while I was a measly five.
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She worked in a bar for minimum wage and practically lived off of the measly tips she made.
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Has any player made it harder to win a single, measly point?
Times, Sunday Times
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So when Bush touts his record — a tripling of aid to Africa, a $15-billion commitment to fight HIV/AIDS, etc. — it has to be put in perspective: It's better than nothing, but it's still kind of measly ....
06/13/2005
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As the microwave chimed its monotone signal, Kelvin took out his measly breakfast and began reading papers as he consumed it.
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How could losing a measly five hours of sleep possibly make me this tired for the rest of the week?
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The site could be being 'throttled' to save bandwidth...for example we don't block streaming video or audio sites, but the protocol is restricted to a measly amount of kps, thus rendering it too slow to use.
The Home Office Bans My Blog
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One word of advice to drivers hoping to fill the boot with bubbly - the duty-free limit for importing champagne into the UK is a measly 90 litres.
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If the recipient was feeling truly, righteously indignant about the measly offer made by the allocator, however, then the only way to punish the allocator sufficiently is to reject the offer.
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Charging a measly 20 bucks, Canada's favourite lupine hippie rocked a sold-out audience at das Kool Haus for pretty close to an hour and 45 minutes.
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It has a lot of ground to cover in twenty-six measly episodes.
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So much work and time for just a measly block of cheese.
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Who in this house would be able to heat their homes for a pitiful and measly 9 a week? she asked.
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She had only one bathroom break, and three measly meals (usually gruel) were sent to her daily.
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Most print dealers were so desperate that they would undercut your price by a measly hundred dollars just to ace you out of a deal.
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You just don't call a measly step or even two on a legend nicknamed "Air" any more than you call Barry Bonds, reputed to have the best eye at the plate in baseball, out on strikes on a borderline pitch.
Starr Gazing: Is The Fix In?
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Passing on measly increases to savers isn't the only ploy banks have used to boost profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The media has constantly focused, and Wall Street has been very happy about this focus, on this measly-and I say "measly" - $700 billion worth of TARP money that Congress allowed to be allocated last October.
Democracy Now!
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I have forgotten whether she said they looked "mangy," or "measly," or "peaky;" but she conveyed her idea in some such graphic phrase.
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
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I use the term cheap since you got all the instances for a keyword for that measly price.
Digital Point Forums
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I will admit my measly job as a medical transcriptionist is nothing compared to your being a forensic scientist.
Think Progress » Court expands review of ‘partial birth’ abortion.
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And a measly three goals over four games.
The Sun
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One measly crumb of comfort is that the rate of decline has slowed.
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Trust me, an infinite amount of people ask me what camera I use, and the advertising is surely worth more money than a measly 300 bucks or so.
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The average British bathroom measures a measly 3.5 square metres.
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The doctor returned to the captain, and said, "that there was no doubt but that the pig was measly, which was a complaint very frequent on board ships, particularly in hot climates, where all pork became _measly_ -- one great reason for its there proving so unwholesome.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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A measly amount went to Mum.
The Sun
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The average British bathroom measures a measly 3.5 square metres.
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On popular review congregator site Rotten Tomatoes, it scored a measly 39%.
Carl Parkes -- FriskoDude
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As investors tire of measly 2% returns, they could dip more earnestly into stocks.
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Unfortunately, instead of a partnership the brothers offer Steven a measly $20 raise.
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It holds a measly quarter-ounce of lube, which is next to nothing, but the needle-like applicator means you can oil up parts with pinpoint precision.
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Well, you see that our measly, oxymoronic ‘will power’ is no match for breakup freakout, not to mention these massive conglomerate phone companies.
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Don't think that local elections are measly, insignificant, and not worth your time.
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Rune looked at her measly amount of writing and felt ashamed.
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String theory holds that different modes of vibration reveal themselves in our measly four dimensions of space and time as different particles and forces.
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a measly tip
