用“meager”造句大全，meager造句

It is because these products are cheap, and given people's meager salaries these ersatz goods are often their only option.

Various confused and contradictory explanations surfaced from ministers, but not the oil. Only at their next officially scheduled meeting did they come up with a meager quota increase.

Liu told of the beatings and burnings, of the food so meager than he lost 20 pounds, of being chained at night and guarded by vicious dogs, about being shuttled among three brick factories.

to a meager degree or in a meager manner.

A3: Because of long voyages and meager rations.

It had meager fresh water supplies, however, so Darwin and his botanist friend, Joseph Hooker, set out to change things.

The average of the 51 forecasts was fourth-quarter growth at a meager 0.7% rate, so slow that it will push the unemployment rate higher.

As I sat on the deck nursing a book and the fire cooking our dinner, the photovoltaic lights on the plastic tables on the patio winked on with meager yet thrillingly unexpected rays of light.

Why are living standards so meager in many African countries?

He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons; Braque eked out his collages with charcoal.

A few meager jars of last year's supply were nestled in a knapsack slung across his shoulders. Old Man Tribbit had told Andy to bring him a few jars before winter set in.

Actors would gather outside what was left of the building to pick up their meager salaries.

Berea is ranked 67th in U.S. News's 2011 rankings of best liberal arts colleges and only admits students hailing from meager financial backgrounds.

Party officials worked long hours on meager food, in cold caves, by dim lamps. a.

To expect tremendous return from meager investment

This demonstrates that she is able to excel at something, even within the confines of her meager existence and abominable sweaters, and implies potential yet untapped.

We knew we had to scale the transcoding, but it was of primary importance that we not have to worry about filling up the meager hard disks on our web servers.