meager in English
they were forced to supplement their meager earnings
Use "meager" in a sentence
1. The perfect place for a meager servant.
2. My meager skills demand it.
3. Food rations were meager and poorly prepared.
4. He could not support his family on his meager salary.
5. His meager wage is not enough to support their five children.
6. Unfortunately, though, only meager fragments of the writings of Papias survive.
7. I eke out a meager living teaching chess to incompetent zombies.
8. Barely definition is - in a meager manner : plainly
9. We also did a little rubber tapping to supplement our meager income.
10. To eke out her meager pay, Betty turned to writing.
11. Meager income and terrible working condition oppress her imaginative spirit.
12. He has meager job prospects and a dim future.
13. They are barely able to afford the rent for their own meager accommodations.
14. Despite Kessler's wailing and carrying on, the two assistants methodically removed his meager furniture.
15. I learned how to catch frogs to supplement our meager diet.
16. 16 Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
17. Together the couple earns a meager $10,000 a year —poverty level by American standards.
18. Her meager income just offsets family outgoings, she remains hand - to - mouth.
19. The Daughery family made their meager yearly income following the harvest.
20. His meager allotment of gas had to be saved for emergencies.
21. Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
22. The day was full of hard sunlight, meager clouds looking like white foam just beginning to evaporate.
23. That meager profit will be slashed by one third with yuan's two percent revaluation.
24. 17 Kingship over human beings is a meager thing when compared with heavenly bliss.
25. But after an hour, the movie runs out of its already meager steam.
26. Crooks’ room has ‘a meager yellow light’ which suggests that there is very little hope in Crooks’ life
27. She never spoke to anyone but would nod at Toussaint, who brought her shares of their meager food.
28. 1 A meager number of non-governmental organizations have time for health and safety issues in Nogales' maquilas.
29. They had married right after high school, and raised a large family on a meager budget.
30. Some Christian sisters saved bread from their own meager rations and smuggled it to us.
31. The library facilities were meager, the science departments and the engineering school had to make do with outdated equipment.
32. Absence of both or weakness in either indicates a weak quality mindset within the organization, and that yields meager motivation.
33. A meager number of non-governmental organizations have time for health and safety issues in Nogales' maquilas.
34. A straggling line of women and children on the move with their meager possessions atop their heads.
35. Ever since 1939, Don Benigno had been denied the right to work, and he was limited to a very meager living.
36. Receiving meager support funds, my students and I are improving housing environment business in highlands in Thailand.
37. “My funds were dwindling, my meager income did not always cover expenses, and I was physically tired.
38. He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons; Braque eked out his collages with charcoal.
39. Absence of both or weakness in either indicates a weak quality mindset within the organization,[Sentence dictionary] and that yields meager motivation.
40. Surprisingly, Gideon was secretly threshing wheat in a winepress in order to conceal his meager harvest from the Midianites.
41. The only person I saw was the guard who shoved a meager meal through an opening in the door.
42. First you would wait for Macintosh to read a small bit of information from Fred into its meager memory.
43. In their newly decorated dining room, alive with rich, warm reds, the grand repast consisted of three meager chops.
44. In order to survive, I fled to the countryside to work for meager wages as a field hand.
45. All the time Dad was away, Mother took in washing to supplement her meager income from the authorities.
46. Amply: 1 adv sufficiently; more than adequately “the evidence Amply (or fully) confirms our suspicions” “they were fully (or Amply ) fed” Synonyms: fully Antonyms: meagerly , meagrely , slenderly , sparingly to a meager degree or in a meager manner adv to an ample degree or in an ample manner “these voices were Amply represented” Synonyms:
47. In practice, beneficiary households have to pool their meager grants in order to buy a farm from a willing seller.
48. Constantly on the move in pursuit of the migratory herds, they carried on their backs their few meager possessions.
49. We grew up locked in permanent contention with one another over a meager and fickle supply of paternal affection.
50. (Matthew 4:1-4) His meager possessions were evidence that he did not profit materially from the use of his power.