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 same tool shows the odds of a rate cut on Wednesday at a meager 5%.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • Even the gift bags were meager compared with what was given to the men.
    New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • So, on a good night, do tips, which can boost a musician’s meager wages.
    Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Sadly, at a lot of charging stations, many of the choices will be meager chain fast food.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 June 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
  • Yet even at the time, economists argued that the funding was too meager to bring the economy all the way back.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Economic growth was modest last year as the state struggled to recover from the wildfires, and job growth was meager at best.
    Scott Cohn, CNBC, 11 July 2024

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