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Definition of meager:

  • (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

Sentence Examples:

A meager diet.

Details were meager.

Meager they become.

News is meager.

Meager details indeed.

It is too meager.

Resistance was meager.

We ate a meager supper.

The results were meager.

Then meager news came.

A man of meager resources.

Our outfit was meager enough.

He gave his meager laugh.

His questions elicited meager information.

It must be rather meager.

He lifted his meager hand.

Their fare was meager enough.

A meager fare and hard work.

Inferior school equipment and meager support.

There is meager eloquence in the records.

The details were meager; brutally meager.

My own notes are very meager.

Their dialects are primitive and meager.

Naturally, the vocabulary is very meager.

The food exhibit was exceedingly meager.

The returns were meager in the extreme.

This demands a meager knowledge of Phrenology.

There was meager hope of reaching home alive.

The uses people make of them are meager.

Grant's practice must be more than meager.

The opportunities for this were meager enough.

At times the meager pathway disappeared entirely.

Ashton ate his meager breakfast without replying.

It was at all times aggressively meager.

The beginnings of business had been meager.

His eyes were running over Riley's meager equipment.

We have but meager accounts of this experiment.

The supper must necessarily be very meager.

Their instrumental music is primitive and meager.

Sophie's taste had supplemented Bettina's meager funds.

Whom thus the meager Shadow answered soon.

Returned Josephine Smith, shaking her meager curls.

Doodles asked, looking around on the meager array.

The literature upon the subject is therefore meager.

The results of this rite were painfully meager.

The account of this climax is quite meager.

The supplies for a siege were very meager.

Here are two pictures from my meager collection.

You must admit your description has been meager.

Covered in a meager depth with rusty water.

The resources of the prison are so meager!

Hunting got progressively meager as winter came on.

He revolts at much method with meager matter.

Duane saw a sheep-herder driving in a meager flock.

Above him an oil lamp shed a meager light.

Their content may be as meager as you please.

In some places facilities are ample, in others meager.

That would be a poor and meager educational service.

Their food had been reduced to a meager quantity.

It was a tiny creature, small-boned and meager.

Sundown accepted this meager consolation with a grimace.

The details of his work are very meager.

Our information regarding these creatures is exceedingly meager.

Undoubtedly these figures are very meager and unreliable.

Many a career have ended due to a meager yield.

I wasn't sure why Isabel sought my meager services.

Luce lived with the meager life of the peasant.

Fortunately there are ways to increase this meager income.

He was a great thinker, but a meager writer.

Whitworth snatched at the opportunity, meager as it was.

"It had its significance," was Trent's meager reply.

Meager claims have we on its friendly protection I imagine.

He unfolded it and examined it in the meager light.

I know it will not be as meager as mine.

Unfortunately, the results hitherto secured are somewhat meager.

Growth starts over from the most meager of beginnings.

Clancy shrugged as she surveyed again her meager wardrobe.

I demanded, feeling that our information was meager indeed.

If you give them but bread, that seems meager.

The supply of university resources is still more meager.

Its resources were even more meager than he had supposed.

She had one brother, a young man of meager qualities.

He scanned the meager assortment of coins with anxious eye.

It was meager, but it served to excite our interest.

Jack was a Celt, a liar and a meager man.

Please lend your most charitable imagination to my meager description.

Half a dozen women attended the somewhat meager rites.

The musical stimulation of this boy was meager indeed.

In these wretched prisons the diet was most meager.

And for this meager comfort Code Schofield was thankful.

Statistics of uses are as meager as of the lumber output.

Why, the bones fairly poke through its meager hide.

The details of his great work are very meager.

Lynn even greater than before, through his meager explanation.

In desperation a national lottery was held, producing meager results.

Cicero himself would have been dumb under such meager conditions.

It would whisper as he sat by the meager flame.

These are only a meager handful of his many poems.

That is the meager extent of my information at present.

Carrying his meager bag, he returned late in the afternoon.