Use "meagre" in a sentence

1. I had to trust my youthful judgement, a judgement based on the meagre sum of knowledge gleaned so far about my captors

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2. I discovered new horizons, and daily I journeyed across the plains of my meagre captivity in search of the treasure caves of Ali-Baba and his forty thieves

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3. My experience of life might seem deplorably meagre to many, but still had those moments to cherish, and I believed, sitting in the back of that van with Robbie, that I would have a life full of such joys

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4. We had no choice but to abandon our meagre collection of belongings as we were hooded and hurried down into another waiting van

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5. Between them they filled in the meagre information Kara had

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6. I ate their meagre meals in the

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7. During the day the young man went off to commit his musical crimes in shopping malls and bus stations, only to find that he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers and flustered financial advisers because Cyberia had scorched their whites

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8. More out of frustration than hope, the soldier started to press the buttons randomly, and as he did so the door to his meagre little motel room crashed open and in sprang the dog with eyes the size of sparkling Catherine Wheels

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9. Apart from a few casual jobs that he managed to get during the summer season, when Britain’s residential masses poured out of their suburban homes to spend two weeks basking in the melange of weather systems that blow in across the great western seas, he spent most of the year fishing from beaches and rocky breakwaters, eking out a meagre living by selling sea bass to local restaurants and pubs

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10. Terry pretty well disappeared from public life, earning a meagre living from his pub until that went into liquidation too

11. They bought a little cottage in the village eked out a meagre living on a residue of royalties gleaned from discount store book sales and the odd spot of lawn mowing that came their way from lineage adverts in the parish newspaper

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12. With the excellent advice of their own legal eagles easily overcoming the meagre resistance offered by the partners Dawson, they successfully overturned the terms of the will and shared the proceeds from the sale of the house, its chattels and the remaining technical gizmos that had not been confiscated by the Old Bill

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13. was my destiny, and earning that meagre income from it my karma

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14. scratch out meagre livings as best they could

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15. some meagre civility when his father asked him to help in the

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16. he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers

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17. buttons randomly, and as he did so the door to his meagre little

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18. cottage in the village eked out a meagre living on a residue of

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19. meagre abilities to read

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20. Chrissie picked at her meagre plateful; she’d not bothered with lunch and her stomach was churning at the thought of the greasy meat

21. brought their meagre meals through the connecting

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22. outside the south gate, surrounded by a meagre but

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23. beneath the meagre shelter of a stunted oak

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24. After they had eaten a meagre meal of high-energy rations and drunk a small ration of unpleasant tasting water, Chris got everyone organised in taking down the tent and stowing the components into their rucksacks

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25. With all their most brilliant technical know-how they had chosen a meagre human – albeit one who had published work on neuro-physiology – to play a key part in recovering a lost culture

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26. Finally, however, Estrada's meagre ammunition gave out, and flanked by the Chasseurs of Puerto Rico, the six hundred Cubans fell back

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27. Finished with the meagre meal, he took a drink from the bottle of water he was carrying and strode off down the road again

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28. After school was out in the afternoon, I augmented my meagre income by teaching children and young people as an adjunct to their therapy sessions with a clinical psychologist

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29. Now she could not see how her own meagre history could possibly give him the insight he needed to save them

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30. The noise brings out a meagre scattering of figures from the shadows, just as Ralph understands the bird is drawing the villagers’ attention more effectively than any of his shouted commands

31. Finally, the meagre few left to them are gathered by the well

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32. The last thing he remembered thinking was how small his life was in its own totality, how petty and meagre his fears

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33. meagre act of redress

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34. gnashing teeth and claws, all they came upon was a meagre heap

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35. He doted on Kiril but worried that one day one of the foreigners he ‘entertained’ to supplement his meagre income as a porter, would either bring disease or take him away

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36. Although after the previous twenty-four hours he"d probably used up his meagre reserves of feeling

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37. The following night, it being Friday, Edgar visited an attractive widow prepared to augment her meagre income by pleasuring discreet, clean and healthy men

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38. ―Oh yeah,‖ Jim said, letting his head rest against the meagre cushion again

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39. I had meagre knowledge about the

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40. The strike lasted a few weeks and was eventually resolved with a meagre wage rise

41. It was a meagre existence only supplemented by hand me down clothes gratefully received from better off relatives

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42. Then, out of the gray mist and the meagre glow of the violet pointer, I saw the Wall

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43. On the small mountain plateau overlooking the valley and Thunder Inlet, Nadya and Harry Travis stood by two horses packed with their meagre belongings

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44. As his strength returned despite the meagre medicine and ghastly food, he finally requested a visit from his country’s consul and from there things happened as it seemed to him, slowly

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45. So the people brought their meagre catches and fed them into the machine, and they were supplied with the most incredible stock they had ever tasted

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46. The streets became reticulated with rivulets of rain, transmogrified into liquid gold by the meagre, other-worldly light of the few fish oil lamps that lined the streets

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47. reveal the meagre contents

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48. clothing, meagre un-tasty food often with roaches, bugs and

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49. As they ate their meagre meal the tiredness

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50. These nations have a rigid social conscience which will provide all our meagre requirements

51. What was not communally owned was offered in patches for the millions of unemployed and dispossessed to scratch out a meagre existence

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52. And what he learnt of them, especially the vocal ones, was that their sincerity on matters social and political was as meagre as that year’s rains

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53. That was indeed another of life’s mysteries, thought Rudolph as he refocused on the comparatively meagre spoils of the Clegg empire, but one he wouldn’t mind solving

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54. “You tell me, in which good school or in which good college, I’ll get admission with this meagre 65 percent marks? Tell me? I was dreaming to take admission in the Cotton College or some prestigious college

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55. I was always thinking about your bright future, but working with a meagre salary I couldn’t dream big things for you

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56. Ajay had passed his class tenth board exam after appearing three times; and he started teaching in venture school in the nearby village LP school; earning meagre salary from the village funds and taking some tuitions to the children of nearby and distant villages

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57. The light from the fire and its meagre warmth somehow comforted him and took the edge off the pain that still flowed through his body

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58. By living on meagre rations they estimated that they could survive for

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59. meagre rations would last longer

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60. Load the vehicle with gold bars, rather than take a meagre suitcase full of notes

61. It had become a nice, cosy little rut, with enough of an income to pay for his meagre lodgings and general upkeep

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62. They also contributed more to the bar’s meagre income than the villagers could who chose to eat there

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63. The satisfaction was meagre compared to holding a lover in my arms

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64. He may have to live on his meagre pension

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65. though my knowledge of Samskrit was meagre, still I hoped to be able to

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66. The meagre old man who is the least conspicuous with his scanty

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67. his student from out of his own earnings, however meagre or high it is

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68. of the Upanishad is so meagre that I cannot think of offering any

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69. Some had built some sort of protection around them, cardboard houses containing their meagre possessions, which would likely be nothing more than rubbish to me

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70. Bill landed on me, and the meagre air in my lungs gushed out in a grunt

71. favour at the highest stage, whereas the assistance appears to be meagre

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72. A smaller piece ran inside The Mercury, and The Intelligencer only deemed it worthy of a meagre paragraph near the back

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73. could take his place, supplement his meagre in-

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74. away at a meagre living

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75. thousands of meagre fires hung in a low pall over

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76. thing as uncontrollable as the meagre living con-

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77. She was a pauper with little but the patched rags and single pair of shoes she stood in, and a few meagre possessions

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78. John was happy with this arrangement and, with his knapsack of meagre possessions, he moved in

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79. “We’re just going to have to cut back some more,” I said, staring at our already meagre meal of pasta and a half a can of tuna cooked over the barbecue

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80. this old stick, the most meagre of human possessions

81. Their daily repeated busy emptiness, their rush of barren duties, their meagre moments of what when she was younger used to be happiness but had lately only been relief, those rare moments when her father praised her, would settle down presently and freeze her dead

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82. At every square they congested foot and vehicle traffic, as they paused ravenously to feed on the meagre bulletins of news

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83. Those that may have been in the area during the day had returned to, or would be nearing, the Kowloon peninsula and the old Western District of the island with their meagre catches

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84. He brought the rest of his meagre belongings to his room

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85. You other poor souls will only be too aware of the meagre content of the said meal in which Bob indulged

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86. The trip to Greece had been expensive, and had eaten into his already meagre savings

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87. The young man had no income; besides the meagre allowance his brother and mother gave him to tide him over

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88. He took the rather large envelope to his bedroom, after finishing his meagre lunch

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89. For the last few weeks the pair had been surviving on the meagre savings they had

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90. The meagre light from their torches was quickly absorbed by the total blackness

91. With a brief bow of his head he wished them a pleasant evening and hoped they would enjoy their meagre meal

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92. In this meagre presentation I provide a small part on an infinitive big answer about how everything called

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93. themselves and their meagre possessions out at the other end

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94. On either side of him guarded his favourite attendants, including Cynan Aurelius; everyone standing in the late afternoon sun before Ambrosius could go in and have his meagre supper

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95. meagre efforts were futile

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96. Kifter, an apology seemed meagre

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97. off into the enclave that housed his bed and meagre

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98. All he had to look forward to was a meagre pension

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99. If, then, the earliest ages, in their best remains, offer so meagre a representation of the apostolic gospel in its faith, joy, and love, why shall we doubt the possibility of a rapid oblivion of other closely connected 'peculiarities’ of the faith of Jesus Christ, specially those which were the most characteristic of it?

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