English example sentences with "meager"

It was difficult to live on his meager earnings.
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The beggar rattled a few meager coins in his tin can.
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He fleeced three old ladies of their meager pensions.
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The pay is meager.
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A majority of the homeless were underwhelmed by the meager portions of thin soup and day-old bread that the church had to offer.
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He could not support his family on his meager salary.
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Fadil wasn't satisfied with meager wages.
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Sami survives off meager portions of bread and water.
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My German is very meager.
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Tom couldn't afford to buy a car on his meager earnings.
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The pay was meager.
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You have a meager vocabulary.
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Confucius said: " Yu the Great's conduct, I could not point out any flaws. He consumes meager amount of food, while offering boastful riches to the Gods and ancestors; He always don the crudest attire, but wears lavish garments when worshipping; He resides in a small house, yet forges water ways and ditches with all his might. Figures like Yu the Great, I honestly cannot point out any reprehensible flaws."
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Born in New York City, December 17, 1824, of English and German ancestry, son of a Universalist Minister who was compelled to struggle along on a very meager salary, the lad felt very early in life labor's stern discipline.
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Egeland said many families live in “horrific conditions” in mud and stone huts they have built. They heat what meager food they have — including items found on the local garbage heap — by burning plastic.
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