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"Meagre" in a Sentence (17 examples)
He lived in a rather meagre house.
Despite her meagre salary, she works very hard.
It's a shame that one obtains such a meagre payment in return for such a lot of work.
They ate a meagre lunch, and then set off.
He wore an old-fashioned great-coat, much faded, within which his meagre person was so completely enveloped that the rest of his attire was undistinguishable.
A tiny leveret was the meagre yield of the exhausting hunt.
The pay is meagre.
1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .
It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.
Meagres (Argyrosomus regius, 230 cm, 103 kg) have been raised mainly in Spain, France and Italy.
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[…]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
His education had been but meagre.
It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the present rail passenger service is meagre and between Wetherby and Church Fenton almost non-existent.
Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.
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