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.

26. But after an hour, the movie runs out of its already meager steam.

27. Crooks’ room has ‘a meager yellow light’ which suggests that there is very little hope in Crooks’ life

28. She never spoke to anyone but would nod at Toussaint, who brought her shares of their meager food.

29. 1 A meager number of non-governmental organizations have time for health and safety issues in Nogales' maquilas.

30. They had married right after high school, and raised a large family on a meager budget.

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 The library facilities were meager, the science departments and the engineering school had to make do with outdated equipment.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.

51. The hospital bills left our bank account empty, and Charles’s meager income was not enough to provide for our needs.

52. Since the dams would have to be large compared to the meager river flows, they would be expensive to build.

53. Despite the famine in the streets, the members of the club treat themselves to special foods on their meager allowances.

54. THE BIBLE SAYS: “If you become discouraged in the day of distress, your strength will be meager.” —Proverbs 24:10.

55. Without a father, the family had only a meager income, which came from selling food items in a local market.

56. The insurrection soon became so general that the government with its meager military forces could not cope with the situation.

57. The laborious work and the meager wages made them feel painful, and then they extemporaneously sang some songs to express their own misfortune.

58. No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.

59. When the small group heard on the radio that an assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses would be held in Rundu, they scraped together their meager earnings and arranged for transportation to attend.

60. From meager beginnings in a small central Oregon town, Beaver has cultivated a reputation for breathtaking woodwork, supple fabrics, plush furnishings and awesome power and performance.

61. Only 10,000 Israelite troops now stared across the plain at 135,000 enemy soldiers, and soon Jehovah reduced the number of Israelite soldiers to a meager 300.

62. Along with my six brothers and sisters, I spent my days in the fields taking care of the sheep or cultivating our meager plots of land.

63. —Admonishment noun [ countable] → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus Admonish • No wonder I was constantly Admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.

64. Therein lies its escapist nature and the reason why I predict that Sharon ' s Kadima Party will ( 1 ) fall about as abruptly as it has arisen and ( 2 ) leave behind a meager legacy .

65. The debris flow was followed by three days of almost continuous hyperconcentrated flow surges, which caused significant fluvial aggradation in the Meager Creek flood plain below the Capricorn Creek confluence.

66. He shared his rations.

67. Standard issue ration.

68. Abstemiousness: 1 n moderation in eating and drinking Type of: moderation , temperance the trait of avoiding excesses n restricted to bare necessities Type of: exiguity , leanness , meagerness , meagreness , poorness , scantiness , scantness the quality of being meager

69. Two wine rations.

70. Just K rations.

71. When's the next ration?

72. Cyclopes are one-eyed giants that eke out a meager existence in wild lands. Isolationists by nature, they avoid contact with other races and try to drive away strangers in their territory.

73. Amidst this, the Minister of Niger-Delta and the Minister of States of Niger-Delta have performed Creditably well on developmental projects, despite the meager 13 per cent derivation fund accruable to …

74. We'll ration it.

75. —admonishment noun [ countable] → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus admonish • No wonder I was constantly Admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.

76. Rations get him to what;

77. Apportion: 1 v distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose Synonyms: allocate Types: show 5 types hide 5 types reallocate , reApportion allocate, distribute, or Apportion anew ration , ration out distribute in rations, as in the army award , present give, especially as an honor or reward certificate present someone

78. All the rations you took.

79. (2 Chronicles 7:13) During the resulting drought, ravens fed Elijah in the torrent valley of Cherith, and later a widow’s meager supply of flour and oil was miraculously extended to provide him with food.

80. I can give you extra butter rations.