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Sentence count:78+2Posted:2017-03-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: meagermeagerlyscrimpystingySimilar words: meageragreeagreedagree toagree ondisagreeagree withagreementMeaning: adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent. 
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31. The meagre little peelings falling from her knife into water eased her, their ordinariness was a link with real life.
32. There was no prospect that the tradition-bound villagers would pool their meagre resources to experiment in collective farming.
33. We have sent a donation out of our as yet meagre little store of funds.
34. Meagre amounts of food were bartered by the less unfortunate to the starving in return for land and equipment.
35. They paraded the smart streets of West London, displaying their meagre weekly rations.
36. The playing bondholders were also asked to pay the new extra, voluntary subscription and non-players had to forego their meagre interest.
37. Police commanders claim the area is too large and their resources too meagre to tackle the crisis effectively.
38. This has ranged from a weekly average of just 3.7 complaints in Crook to an even more meagre 2.3 in Chester-le-Street.
39. Most lived in rural areas, where they eked out meagre livings as cultivators.
40. He stood under the meagre bulb in the odd-shaped room with its barred window.
41. Black marketeers and moneylenders mushroomed. In the hinterland, the peasants' meagre savings evaporated rapidly.
42. Her meagre supply of water runs out, and she puts Ishmael in the shade of a bush to die.
43. They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit.
44. The velocity, the sheer power and the technology of the rocket perhaps makes all the more pitiful our meagre destiny.
45. Clearly he's struggling to make ends meet on his meagre salary.
46. When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.
47. Kadiatu and her family live on a meagre rice diet and so suffer from protein and calorie malnutrition. Sentencedict.com
48. Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming.
49. The failure of this meagre adornment seemed only to intensify the air of sadness, like decorations on a dead Christmas tree.
50. Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform.
51. The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
52. The sudden warmth, meagre though it was, drew Isabel like a magnet.
53. Local authorities across the country have therefore been unable, and unwilling, to part with their own meagre resources.
54. His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.
55. a meagre diet of bread and water.
56. The show is drawing but a meagre audience.
57. Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.
58. The resources of New York are rather meagre.
59. The meagre Latin class recited with honor.
60. She grew thin and meagre.
More similar words: meageragreeagreedagree toagree ondisagreeagree withagreementagreeablea great manya great dealdisagreeabledisagreementagree to differeagereagleleaguelineageeagerlymileageeagernessbronze ageat the age ofbeleaguercolleaguea grandvagrantdiagramchagrinhave a good time
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