What about the homesteader or the poorer farmer who is starting on meagre resources?
They received very meagre monetary assistance from the Spanish Government, and had to depend greatly upon the pious offerings of the devout in Barcelona and in Madrid.
The sands of the River Agno near Rosales, and of the streams coming down from Mount Lagsig, are washed for gold, principally by women who obtain but a meagre return.
Montagu Samuels was narrow-minded and narrow-chested, and managed to be pompous on a meagre allowance of body.
Raphael was in despair at the meagre attenuated appearance of the erst prosperous-looking pages.
It was opened almost immediately by a tall meagre man, holding in his hand a small silver lamp, which he applied close to the face of Sir Cesar before he would permit any one to pass.
Too meagre a force to embrace the opportunity, there was nothing to do but to return to Panama.
Almagro and Luque were very much chagrined at the meagre reward that had fallen to them, and Almagro looked with deep antagonism upon the advent of the Pizarros, who, he realized instinctively, would undermine his influence with his partner.
One end of the table held a tin candlestick, where a meagre tallow-candle swaled away in the socket, and the table was littered with fragments of food in little round pans.
The room was chilly and meagre of comforts like its mistress.
But once they had begun with the meagre child, the adipose old man, the lean or flabby youth, they went on through thick and thin.
Paltry wine-houses, with shabby gardens, border the river, and flat meadows and reclaimed marshes give a meagre effect to the whole scene.
During the year he had only very meagre accounts of matters at Englebourn.
But though the furniture was meagre enough, the kitchen had a look of wondrous comfort for a drenched mortal outside.
The scientific results of this ever-memorable voyage might be deemed sufficiently meagre were the fact that the eggs of wild geese did not grow on trees its only recorded discovery.
Two pounds weight of flour, which they had brought to make paste with for cartridges, was baked into pancakes with a little oil, and a single hard biscuit was served out to each man to be sopped in his meagre allowance of wine.
He helped himself up with hands and feet; he seized on the tufts of slender herbs on the hill-side, and on a few meagre shrubs, mastics and myrtles, which stretched away up to the top.
There they renewed their stock of eggs and mollusks, in case they should fail to find even such meagre resources away to the north.
And this morning Godfrey and his companion had again to content themselves with a toomeagre repast of raw eggs and shell-fish.
For fifteen years he lived in Nice upon the meagre pittance until suddenly another fortune was left him, whereupon he promptly paid up the whole of his pension and started at the tables again.
Here of old the monk read aloud while his brethren took their meagre repast.
And not once did she think of the great quest, broken by a meagre waiting by the way; no thought crossed her mind in this crisis of the Land of the Whispering Hills, of an old man, dreaming his dreams in the wilderness.
Rich they were, these gifts, in workmanship and carving, though mean and poor in quality, showing that great love had attended their giving, though the givers themselves must be a meagre people.
I have seen it many times complete; but it is in truth a meagre and uninteresting publication.
It is meagre in places, and its entire trustworthiness has been questioned.
Berkeley sowed wheat-seed from India, and got "the most meagre ears," on land which would certainly have yielded a good crop from English wheat.
He saw the white men bartering for the meagre remaining furs and ivories gathered by the tribe.
While these were unloaded a half-dozen eager natives hastened into their tents and hurriedly brought out their portions of the preciously preserved skins and ivories of the meagre summer hunt.
When she could endure hunger no longer she would eat ravenously of the meagre food in the pot.
Into the lamp he placed the last meagre bits of remaining blubber.
Wandering up and down the coast in their migrating excursions the tribes had scoured land and sea with but meagre results.
With their comparatively meagre portions the others followed.
These Indians are excellent hunters, and their exercise in that capacity is so violent as to reduce them in general to a very meagre appearance.
This is but meagre claim to bind us to his car as the successful champion of the majority.
But the meagre results of conscription revealed not only an excessive calculation of the numerical strength of the Confederacy; they indicated the reluctance with which the harsh necessities of the war, in its later stages, were met.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meagre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
