meager rations|meager ration in English

food meal that provides little sustenance or nutrition, bread and wate

Use "meager rations|meager ration" in a sentence

1. Food rations were meager and poorly prepared.

2. Some Christian sisters saved bread from their own meager rations and smuggled it to us.

3. The perfect place for a meager servant.

4. My meager skills demand it.

5. He could not support his family on his meager salary.

6. His meager wage is not enough to support their five children.

7. Unfortunately, though, only meager fragments of the writings of Papias survive.

8. I eke out a meager living teaching chess to incompetent zombies.

9. Barely definition is - in a meager manner : plainly

10. We also did a little rubber tapping to supplement our meager income.

11. To eke out her meager pay, Betty turned to writing.

12. Meager income and terrible working condition oppress her imaginative spirit.

13. He has meager job prospects and a dim future.

14. They are barely able to afford the rent for their own meager accommodations.

15. Despite Kessler's wailing and carrying on, the two assistants methodically removed his meager furniture.

16. I learned how to catch frogs to supplement our meager diet.

17. 16 Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.

18. Together the couple earns a meager $10,000 a year —poverty level by American standards.

19. Her meager income just offsets family outgoings, she remains hand - to - mouth.

20. The Daughery family made their meager yearly income following the harvest.

21. His meager allotment of gas had to be saved for emergencies.

22. Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.

23. The day was full of hard sunlight, meager clouds looking like white foam just beginning to evaporate.

24. That meager profit will be slashed by one third with yuan's two percent revaluation.

25. 17 Kingship over human beings is a meager thing when compared with heavenly bliss.