meager
Example Sentences
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Yet monetary assistance for the Ukrainian refugees has been meager.
From Seattle Times
Bohemia is not a lucrative state, and mother and daughter survived on welfare, the largess of friends and family and the meager earnings from Viva’s freelance articles and occasional bit parts in films.
From New York Times
For an ascending team in a wide-open division that entered with the sixth and 18th picks, the Lions exited the first round with a meager haul.
From Washington Post
Two and a half years of meager rain have shriveled crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions, to famine’s brink.
From New York Times
Park Police officers near D.C. represents a meager approximation of justice.
From Washington Post
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