How to Use meager in a Sentence

meager

adjective

• We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.
• Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.
• They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.
• Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.
• She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.
• The Titans opened a meager 32-24 gap over the Bruins at the half.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Wildcats opened a meager 21-14 gap over the Colonels at halftime.
  — Ledeai, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2023
• This comes as some storms with lightning and meager amounts of rain pass by the region.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• The Tigers opened a meager 28-20 gap over the Alices at the intermission.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Feb. 2023
• But wee moons, it was thought, should have lost their meager embers long ago.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
• That meager pile of money shrinks more once venues carve out their take, which leads to artists raising the price of merch.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 1 Nov. 2023
• But thus far the steps to address it at a systemic level have been meager.
  — Matthew Duss, The New Republic, 1 June 2023
• Most days, a meager deficit feels like out-of-it disaster.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• Two-and-a-half hours later, 18 cars would be crammed into its meager lot.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2023
• But the meager total so far is not a cause for panic, experts say.
  — Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• The unemployment rate has been at a meager 3.6% for four months.
  — Dennis Kneale, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• As the sun sets, any meager warmth of the day evacuates into the atmosphere, leaving most of us in the 20s by dawn.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Seahawks are last in the league in averaging a meager 56 yards per game rushing through the first two weeks.
  — Tim Booth, ajc, 22 Sep. 2022
• The serving size is a meager ¼ teaspoon and when mixed with water adds no texture, just the faint smell and taste of broccoli.
  — Kelsey Kunik, Rd, Health, 29 Dec. 2023
• The Smaller the Bite, the Better The most meager appetizers are offered up in bulk for a reason.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• On top of that, interest rates were meager, and the costs of acquisitions were low.
  — Dave Cantin, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• In the Rockies, ski areas have been struggling to open lifts and trails on meager early-season snow.
  — Nick Perry, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Yet, those such as Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds are willing to forego even these meager amounts.
  — Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• And Moore, who produced very meager offensive results in both playoff games against the 49ers, had to go.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2023
• The doctors candidly confessed that the chances of success were meager.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• Chinese households have long been some of the most prodigious savers on earth, owing to the fact that social safety nets are meager.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• For the assistants and others, their checks are already meager.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 May 2023
• That meager output was surprising against an Oregon defense that is hardly the best in the Pac-12.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• Yet even this meager response shows the power of enforcement.
  — Cynthia A. Fisher, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023
• Ayton finished with a meager four points and nine rebounds in 26 minutes.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024