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Sentence count:91Posted:2016-11-07Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: leanpoorscantyskimpysparsethinAntonym: amplefatplentifulplumprichstoutSimilar words: eagerat the age ofimagerymanagerteenagermenagerieleaguecolleagueMeaning: ['miːgə(r)]  adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent. 
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1. He supplements his meager income by working on Saturdays.
2. His meager allotment of gas had to be saved for emergencies.
3. His meager wage is not enough to support their five children.
4. He could not support his family on his meager salary.
5. He has meager job prospects and a dim future.
6. A meager number of non-governmental organizations have time for health and safety issues in Nogales' maquilas.
7. The police department is beyond its meager capacities for restraint with a case like this.
8. By this meager, solo loop, the whole caboodle is regulated.
9. The day was full of hard sunlight, meager clouds looking like white foam just beginning to evaporate.
10. Meager pickings in the industry have provided the back-drop to increasing consolidation.
11. In practice, beneficiary households have to pool their meager grants in order to buy a farm from a willing seller.
12. The library facilities were meager, the science departments and the engineering school had to make do with outdated equipment.
13. Out came Dakota farmers who despaired at the meager profits they made growing wheat.
14. The Daughery family made their meager yearly income following the harvest.
15. He spent the next six years using his meager earnings as a bookbinder to pay off debts.
16. A straggling line of women and children on the move with their meager possessions atop their heads.
17. No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.
18. I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.
19. In their newly decorated dining room, alive with rich, warm reds, the grand repast consisted of three meager chops.
20. No landless peasants or laid-off workers are using their meager savings to buy sophisticated guns and enter into a career of crime.
21. They had married right after high school, and raised a large family on a meager budget.
22. But after an hour, the movie runs out of its already meager steam.
23. Despite the famine in the streets, the members of the club treat themselves to special foods on their meager allowances.
24. We grew up locked in permanent contention with one another over a meager and fickle supply of paternal affection.
25. Absence of both or weakness in either indicates a weak quality mindset within the organization,[Sentence dictionary] and that yields meager motivation.
26. The insurrection soon became so general that the government with its meager military forces could not cope with the situation.
27. Since the dams would have to be large compared to the meager river flows, they would be expensive to build.
28. First you would wait for Macintosh to read a small bit of information from Fred into its meager memory.
29. She never spoke to anyone but would nod at Toussaint, who brought her shares of their meager food.
30. Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
More similar words: eagerat the age ofimagerymanagerteenagermenagerieleaguecolleaguehave a good timemeanstruggle againstcome atcome aboutdemeanorangertigermeasuredmea culpathe same asmeantimeGermansingergermanybiggerfingerby no meansby any meansby means ofby all meanscome across
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