gruel
Example Sentences
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“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”
“You know, kids in other countries have no choice. They have to eat gruel for every meal.”
From Los Angeles Times
His only diversion was to make pictures using the hard bits of grain collected from the meager gruel his jailers gave him.
From New York Times
Wales' finance minister will certainly have an increased public profile before Christmas when she publishes the Welsh government's draft budget next week - although the indications are it'll be thin gruel.
From BBC
Labour's shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook dismissed the government's plans, saying: "If this thin gruel is all we're getting in the King's Speech, leaseholders will have been failed."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
