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Example sentences for "meagrely"

Lexicographically close words:
meads; meae; meager; meagerness; meagre; meagreness; meal; meale; mealed; meales
  1. If he lived meagrely instead of lavishly, as my guardians contended, that, the judges said, was his affair, and there the matter ended.

  2. The room was but meagrely furnished, and showed scant signs of prosperity.

  3. The Committee of 1824 was but meagrely supplied with evidence as to foreign surveys.

  4. From the miserably small grant the teachers are badly paid, and, therefore, hastily and meagrely educated.

  5. A great walnut monstrosity meagrely equipped performed the functions of a sideboard.

  6. Paul, who had been bathing with some factory boys in the not very savoury canal a mile or so distant, had wandered mechanically to his brickfield library, which, by means of some scavenging process, he managed to keep meagrely replenished.

  7. He was too shamefully poor, too shabbily and meagrely equipped, to have the right to talk of marriage to a girl in Verena's very peculiar position.

  8. These helpless, meagrely furnished and meagrely conceiving disciples, meagre in food and meagre in faith, are set in contrast to the calm faith and infinite resource of Jesus.

  9. The air still bore the scent of dead bodies which had either been left exposed, or so meagrely covered with earth as to taint the breeze with noisome exhalations.

  10. At that period there were but few inns in these thinly-peopled districts, and such as were already established were small and but meagrely provided.

  11. The emotion, however, was but meagrely expressed in the flatness with which she heard herself presently say: "I'll go to the Registrar now.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meagrely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.