Sample Sentences for
meager
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    The work was brutal, and the food too meager to sustain me.  (source)
    meager = small in quantity
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    Now Martin hoped his meager soldiers' pay would help him save up to buy freedom for his family.  (source)
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    The Gladers around him stood silent, clutching their meager weapons.  (source)
    meager = lacking in quantity or quality
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    His meager harvest was safely stored away.  (source)
    meager = small
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    And what made it worse in Okonkwo's case was that he had to support his mother and two sisters from his meagre harvest.  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
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    He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.  (source)
    meagreness = skinny (less impressive than desired)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "Why, this used to be one of the old Cesnola rooms," he heard some one say; and instantly everything about him vanished, and he was sitting alone on a hard leather divan against a radiator, while a slight figure in a long sealskin cloak moved away down the meagrely-fitted vista of the old Museum.†  (source)
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    Up on the highway, there are two filling stations, one of which doubles as a meagerly supplied grocery store, while the other does extra duty as a cafe-Hartman's Cafe, where Mrs. Hartman, the proprietress, dispenses sandwiches, coffee, soft drinks, and 3.2 beer.†  (source)
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    Neither parent apologized for the meagerness of the food.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    She was still girlish then, about twenty-five but not looking it, with a nice little waist coming straight up out of the satisfactory and unmeager hips and a nice little pair of ankles crossed in front of the chair, and her face was girlish, with soft, soothing contours and large deep-brown eyes, the kind that makes you think of telling secrets in the gloaming over a garden gate when the lilacs are in bloom along the picket fence of the old homestead.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmeager means not and reverses the meaning of meager. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Only one of the candles still burned, a cold, meager light.  (source)
    meager = less than desired
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    How astonishing to have discovered Titch here, among these meagre possessions, his only companion the boy.†  (source)
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    He looked at them, and saw in them, without knowing it, the slow sure filing down of misery-worn face and figure, that was to make the meagreness of Frenchmen an English superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years.†  (source)
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