meagerly
Example Sentences
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Even with that uncertainty, the meagerly funded opposition campaign conceded Tuesday morning that the measure was “almost certain” to pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
Without it, the white population, including those who identify as more than one race, would have dropped last year by more than 85,000 people instead of growing meagerly by more than 388,000 residents, or 0.1%.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
The vast majority are from big centers and power forwards from bygone eras, who made their livings in the post and pushed around anyone who meagerly tried to stop them.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2021
And Katie Miller’s set — its shelves meagerly stocked with Luvs, cling wrap, crackers, Crystal Light, knockoff-brand cereals and other essentials — hits just the right note of woebegone naturalism.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2015
The door, meagerly, opened and he saw within the apartment a fragmented and misaligned shrinking figure, a girl who cringed and slunk away and yet held onto the door, as if for physical support.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
