For the period after the reign of Ashur bani apal, we have only the scantiest data.
Vienne's architectural monuments are many and of all states of nobility, but of palaces, castles and chateaux it contains only the scantiest of memories.
When a man finds he can live easily without much work, that all his neighbours are contented with the scantiest clothing, the coarsest food, and the poorest dwellings, he is very apt to fall into the same slothful habits.
So small was the dependence the Spaniards placed upon them that they carried only the scantiest supply of ammunition.
He wanted recruits badly, and Vigo afforded only the scantiest resources for the refitting of the ships.
Here he toiled day and night, sleeping little and eating the simplest and scantiest food.
In this rough abode the furniture was of the scantiest and rudest sort, very much like what we have already observed in Boone's cabin.
He would infinitely prefer eking out the scantiest existence in this manner to flinging himself into the turbulent whirlpool of town life.
The scantiest rags suffice for clothing, and the sand makes a comfortable bed.
Between the grey layers of stone are occasionally sandwiched layers of white, and the rocks on the hillside above take on a reddish tinge, which, though there is the scantiest of vegetation, just saves the scene from being depressing.
Drew aside with mock deference, leaving scantiest room for the twice-born following them.
Water, another necessary of life, was doled out in the scantiest quantities, too small for proper ablutions or cleansing purposes, and hardly sufficient to assuage thirst.
The caretaker followed him from room to room, praising herself for the cleanliness of the house, and keeping up a continuous stream of talk to which he gave the scantiest attention.
High is her aim as heaven above, And wide as ether her good-will; And, like the lowly reed, her love Can drink its nurture from the scantiest rill.
Of the Hesiodic poems similar in character to the "Works and Days", only the scantiest fragments survive.
Of all this mass of epic poetry only the scantiest fragments survive; but happily Photius has preserved to us an abridgment of the synopsis made of each poem of the "Trojan Cycle" by Proclus, i.
It is not an uncommon thing to see a woman walking the streets in Waikiki in the scantiest of bathing suits, with drapery of the flimsiest suspended from her shoulders and floating behind upon the breeze.
Of the single million soldiers raised by the South only two hundred thousand remained in arms, half starved, half clad, with the scantiest of munitions, and without reserves of any kind.
There is only here and there a reflection, there are only the scantiest notes on people.
Till this occurred, as my means were of the scantiest character, I took lodgings in an humble hotel.
The poor girl, who had before been simply attired in the scantiest of petticoats, retired to a corner of the yard, and speedily came forward again dressed in a neat cotton gown.
They were both so radiantly happy that they laughed whenever there was either the scantiest opportunity or none at all.
Whenever the postman's knock was heard at the door, it was invariably followed by the appearance of the author in the passage, often in the scantiest of raiment, to discover whether the post had brought him any luck.
They have no political influence, and they live in such remote places that the really heroic services they continually render receive the scantiest recognition from the public.
General Gates, with the scantiest following, had hastened first to Salisbury and later to Hillsborough, and had since been busy striving to reassemble his scattered forces.
Moreover, there was a plentiful outcropping of stone on the summit, scantiest on the broad or outer end of the hill, and this was so disposed as to form a natural breastwork for the defenders.
The meagre tables of the refectory had not seldom been the despair of the old depositaire, Mère St. Louis, who devoutly said her longest graces over her scantiest meals.
The flintiest couch shall be to me a bed of down, the scantiest fare a royal feast, the hardest penance a life of pleasure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scantiest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
