SCANTY in a Sentence
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35 example sentences for SCANTY, such as:
1. I can't get along on my scanty pay.
2. It is difficult to infer anything from such scanty evidence.
3. Thinking his helping of food was scanty, Oliver Twist asked for more.
4. The ant is the most industrious animal, but it most be scanty of words.
5. Most of them carried only a carpetbag and a scanty lunch done up in a bandana handkerchief.
2. It is difficult to infer anything from such scanty evidence.
3. Thinking his helping of food was scanty, Oliver Twist asked for more.
4. The ant is the most industrious animal, but it most be scanty of words.
5. Most of them carried only a carpetbag and a scanty lunch done up in a bandana handkerchief.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SCANTY
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scanty
a. somewhat less than needed in amplitude or extent; insufficient
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes.
2 The shambling figure, and the scanty great-coat, were not to be mistaken.
3 I had not expected him to be, and was not surprised myself; or my observation of similar practical satires would have been but scanty.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
4 The scanty, wet-looking grey hair, by which I remembered him, was almost gone; and the thick veins in his bald head were none the more agreeable to look at.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
5 This man lifted his straw hat, showed his scanty curly hair and high forehead, painfully reddened by the pressure of the hat.
6 The priest, a little old man with a scanty grizzled beard and weary, good-natured eyes, was standing at the altar-rails, turning over the pages of a missal.
7 Levin could see the scanty locks wet with sweat on the temples and tense, transparent-looking forehead.
8 Food was scanty, one blanket for three men, and the ravages of smallpox, pneumonia and typhoid gave the place the name of a pest-house.
9 Most of them carried only a carpetbag and a scanty lunch done up in a bandana handkerchief.
10 It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
11 He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.
12 Women and children ran from place to place, some bearing the scanty remnants of their baggage, and others searching in the ranks for those countenances they looked up to for protection.
13 Colonel Lloyd's slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance.
14 There was a small window there, which let in, through its dingy, dusty panes, a scanty, uncertain light on the tall, high-backed chairs and dusty tables, that had once seen better days.
15 Ferrier carried the bag of gold and notes, Jefferson Hope had the scanty provisions and water, while Lucy had a small bundle containing a few of her more valued possessions.
Example Sentence:
1 I can't get along on my scanty pay.
2 The ant is the most industrious animal, but it most be scanty of words.
3 It is difficult to infer anything from such scanty evidence.
4 They think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes and scanty food: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
5 Thinking his helping of food was scanty, Oliver Twist asked for more.