MEAGRE in a Sentence
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25 example sentences for MEAGRE, such as:
1. The meagre Latin class recited with honor.
2. Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.
3. She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
4. He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
5. His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.
2. Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.
3. She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
4. He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
5. His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.
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Meanings and Examples of MEAGRE
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meagre
a. deficient in amount or quality or extent
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his meagre supper.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
2 This meagre fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an exception.
3 The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
4 had not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a meagre income which had survived no one knew how.
5 He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
6 One vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, which is, however, sufficient for life.
7 Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response.
8 I drew out my purse; a meagre thing it was.
9 The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places.
10 His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.
11 The meagre Latin class recited with honor.
12 His wife, on the contrary, whose maiden name had been Madeleine Radelle, was pale, meagre, and sickly-looking.
13 From being slender he had now become meagre; once pale, he was now yellow; his deep-set eyes were hollow, and the gold spectacles shielding his eyes seemed to be an integral portion of his face.
14 That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.
15 There had been no handkerchiefs to work upon, for two or three days, and the dinners had been rather meagre.
Example Sentence:
1 She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
2 He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
3 Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.
4 This was a meal bonus to supplement our meagre rations and kept our spirits up.