scanter

Example Sentences

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With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.

From Time Magazine Archive

So when Burns knocked, Will knit his brows,   His window gap made scanter, 50 And said, 'Go rouse the other house;   We lodge no Tam O'Shanter!'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

There was scant chance that the call would be carried to her by the boisterous wind, scanter chance still that, hearing it now in that mad rout, she would heed.

From On the Firing Line by Fuller, Hamilton Brock

It was a scanter and shallower stream, however, than when he left it, for now the long heats of the summer had shrunken all the watercourses.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir