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
• Maria tries on a scarf that’s too costly for her meager salary.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• 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
• But a meager 18% of respondents to the Third Way poll say profits were what’s wrong with the system.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Nov. 2021
• So, on a good night, do tips, which can boost a musician’s meager wages.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• Activists are less than impressed at the still-meager amount.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2021
• Or tired of working hard for a meager raise every year.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• But Smith didn’t blame the meager showing on the quarterbacks.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 14 Aug. 2021
• Of course, a dry winter will result in meager flows in spring and summer.
  — Steven R. Fassnacht, The Conversation, 27 July 2021
• 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
• But the film does make the most of its meager ingredients in its closing scenes.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Or grocery, which earns much of its meager margin on items that many GLP-1 users no longer crave.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
• All of them were forced to defer a significant chunk of their meager salaries until the production could land a distributor.
  — Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024