“meager”可以造什么句，meager造句

To expect tremendous return from meager investment

A3: Because of long voyages and meager rations.

Party officials worked long hours on meager food, in cold caves, by dim lamps. a.

He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons; Braque eked out his collages with charcoal.

This demonstrates that she is able to excel at something, even within the confines of her meager existence and abominable sweaters, and implies potential yet untapped.

Various confused and contradictory explanations surfaced from ministers, but not the oil. Only at their next officially scheduled meeting did they come up with a meager quota increase.

A few meager jars of last year's supply were nestled in a knapsack slung across his shoulders. Old Man Tribbit had told Andy to bring him a few jars before winter set in.

As I sat on the deck nursing a book and the fire cooking our dinner, the photovoltaic lights on the plastic tables on the patio winked on with meager yet thrillingly unexpected rays of light.

to a meager degree or in a meager manner.

Actors would gather outside what was left of the building to pick up their meager salaries.

It is because these products are cheap, and given people's meager salaries these ersatz goods are often their only option.

Berea is ranked 67th in U.S. News's 2011 rankings of best liberal arts colleges and only admits students hailing from meager financial backgrounds.

We knew we had to scale the transcoding, but it was of primary importance that we not have to worry about filling up the meager hard disks on our web servers.

It had meager fresh water supplies, however, so Darwin and his botanist friend, Joseph Hooker, set out to change things.

Liu told of the beatings and burnings, of the food so meager than he lost 20 pounds, of being chained at night and guarded by vicious dogs, about being shuttled among three brick factories.

The average of the 51 forecasts was fourth-quarter growth at a meager 0.7% rate, so slow that it will push the unemployment rate higher.

Why are living standards so meager in many African countries?