dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

meager
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like 'our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity'?  (source)
    meager = lacking in quantity or quality
  • •
    For that entire period he subsisted on nothing but five pounds of rice and what marine life he could pull from the sea, an experience that would later convince him he could survive on similarly meager rations in the Alaska bush.  (source)
  • •
    And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn.  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 7 word variations
  • •
    Aside from my textbooks, my avatar had only a few meager possessions: a flashlight, an iron shortsword, a small bronze shield, and a suit of banded leather armor.  (source)
    meager = lacking in quantity or quality
  • •
    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)
    meagre = small
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
  • •
    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.
  • •
    "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)
  • •
    An old soldier who made his way to Zurich-blown up, a cripple, worthless except for certain facts stored away that former comrades paid meagerly to keep suppressed.†  (source)
    meagerly = in a way that lacks quantity or quality
  • •
    Neither parent apologized for the meagerness of the food.†  (source)
    meagerness = the characteristic of lacking quantity or quality
    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.
  • •
    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)
    unmeager = not deficient
    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.
  • •
    From these meager beginnings he built the giant Westing Paper Products Corporation and founded the city of Westingtown to house his thousands of workers and their families.  (source)
    meager = minimal (less than would be desired)
  • •
    The gist of the story was that Bishop was a popular folk leader who had deposed an insane dictator, a UFO nutcase who had devoted part of the meagre national budget to chasing flying saucers.†  (source)
    meagre = lacking in quantity or quality
  • •
    A meagreness settled over Avilion.†  (source)
    meagreness = the characteristic of lacking quantity or quality
▲ show less (of above)