meagre in English
they were forced to supplement their meager earnings
Use "meagre" in a sentence
1. Even this meagre effort is a struggle.
2. He busked to supplement his meagre wages.
3. I took a meagre 22 flights.
4. Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.
5. The prisoners were queuing for their meagre rations .
6. What did they do for their meagre earnings?
7. Government regulation offers a meagre defence against Hollywood.
8. Most of its meagre income comes from donors.
9. The refugees queued up for their meagre rations of soup.
10. She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
11. That sum augmented the meagre penny per week given by Dad.
12. The prisoners existed on a meagre diet of rice and fish.
13. She eked out a meagre living as an artist's model.
14. In any case, the alms it distributed to pilgrims were very meagre.
15. The meagre result hardly justified the risks they took to get it.
16. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 1% pay rise.
17. It offers meagre consolation for Mr Barak after Monday's killing in Jerusalem.
18. He gets fifty thousand pounds a year while I get a meagre twenty!
19. However, Labour's urban policy can not be perceived as anything other than meagre.
20. He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
21. 28 He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
22. I saw it as a never-ending drain on our meagre stock of rope and timber.
23. That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.
24. And he was out, the hell-spawned eunuch, forcing his scrawny Besmottered flanks through the meagre gap in the hurdles
25. As art criticism, it has the merit of making a judgement, though description and interpretation may be meagre.
26. I also couldn't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games.
27. The fee basis for unsuccessful claims can often be extremely meagre as can profitability in general for a significant proportion of the work.
28. 12 I also couldn't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games.
29. The failure of this meagre adornment seemed only to intensify the air of sadness, like decorations on a dead Christmas tree.
30. One can only wonder what kept Alpine dwellers pinned to their meagre existence beyond habit, tradition and nowhere else to go.
31. Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre, and out of proportion to the city's importance.
32. The document by the Controller of Budget shows the ballooning wage bill is draining the public Coffers with only meagre resources left for development.
33. Baltistan is chiefly inhabited by Baltis, Muslim tribes of Tibetan origin who eke out a meagre living growing crops (mainly barley and fruits)
34. The "Annals of Boyle", a famous abbey in Roscommon, are written in Irish and Latin, and though very meagre, come down from the remotest period to 1253 (O'Conor, SS
35. Indeed, the disruption of trade, the deterioration of major roads by humanitarian convoys and all the other costs eat up our meagre resources and are the most common source of political unrest among our own people, who feel that they have been abandoned
36. Alongside this renewed political initiative, some further items to write down on the credit side of the balance sheet for this period are the drawing-up of some important directives and the agreement on an albeit limited increase in the meagre financial perspective for 2007-2013.
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38. Besmeared with mire; his saturated clothes clinging with a damp embrace about his limbs; his beard unshaven, his face unwashed, his meagre cheeks worn into deep hollows,--a more miserable wretch could hardly be, than this man who now cowered down upon the widow's hearth, and watched the struggling flame with bloodshot eyes.
39. The Chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains.