“paltry”可以造什么句，paltry造句

His influence on this matter is paltry.

How can you deliberately get up such paltry falsehoods?

I am not even speaking here of that paltry eternity that is called posterity.

The appetite for gold arises partly from the paltry, uncertain returns from more conventional investments.

lack of sales staff，没有多余的销售员工paltry inventory极低的库存。

Since it broke its last ceasefire, in 2007, it has killed ten; paltry, by the group's bloody standards.

Or maybe you just need more cooking oil this month, or a homemade soft drink you can afford on paltry wages.

One in three children in Britain today lives below the breadline, while bankers sulk if their annual bonus falls to a paltry million pounds.

I pledge allegiance to everyone who drives an amBulance or teaches a child on this rainy island for paltry wages because they know it's the right thing to do.

After rebounding from recession in late 2001 and early 2002, the economy had a 12-month stretch in which it grew at a paltry 1.5% annual rate, sparking fears of a double-dip recession.

He'll be happy to get a paltry bonus.

They have no free time, health insurance, holidays or pension provision beyond the paltry state minimum.

But sometimes instead of selling theseitems for paltry amounts of cash, online users barter with each other.

Hourly earnings rose just 1.7% in the year to March, a paltry raise that will soon be eaten up by the rising cost of petrol and grocery bills.

The government is trying to recruit more Tamil policemen. But such measures look paltry against an internment policy that the EU's report calls a "novel form of unacknowledged detention".

I suspect paltry pay was a big factor too.

To poor countries, this sounds paltry: responses range from "bribery" to "it will not even pay for the coffins".

It's paltry to do that job.

Many people have given away valuable properties and investments for paltry sums of money just because at a point in time the desperately needed money.

In the past Dell used its extremely efficient supply chain, lack of sales staff, paltry inventory.