exiguous

Example Sentences

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The result of the court’s linguistic analysis is an exiguous textual opinion based on parsing dictionaries instead of a functional understanding even minimally consistent with basic science.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2023

As for "lasting" effects on economic growth, the average growth of GDP since 2005 has been an exiguous 0.6%.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

Expectorating on an enemy's final resting place is exactly the kind of exiguous act of vengeance that a contemporary injured party might just be able to manage.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2011

Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases.

From Time Magazine Archive

We feel bound to point out however that any attempt to save the nation with the same exiguous weapons would be too hazardous to be encouraged.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir