meagerness

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• They grow hungry and decide to split an apple, but half an apple feels meager.

• In a world inundated with self-prescribed hacks, quick fixes, and countless other silver bullets—the majority of which are plentiful on promises yet meager on results—it’s easy to forget the importance of hard work.

• Despite meager supply and swift home-price growth, the purchase market remains strong.

• Instead, the returns have been meager, as the Office of Lottery and Gaming’s interim executive director Ridgely Bennett acknowledged in a council hearing last month.

• The series takes a group of strangers from different walks of life and strands them in the wilderness with only the clothes on their backs and some meager supplies.

• Especially in a country where the minimum wage is a meager $3.00 an hour.

• Rising to retrieve it, I offer her what meager reassurance I can muster.

• He called on his parents not to accept any “meager compensation” for his death.

• Look through that PDF I just linked to and feast on the meager amounts earmarked for democracy and assistance programs.

• Personal consumption expenditures—people buying stuff—grew at a meager one percent rate in the first quarter.

• This report, however, was very meager and lacking in any profusion of mechanical detail.

• I have no memory of either parent and my information concerning them is meager and second hand.

• The surname Thin has the same meaning as Meagre, from which the common name Meager comes.

• Old Lewson, the man who sat under the apple tree, gave his meager property to his children.