1. He busked to supplement his meagre wages.

2. She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.

3. Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.

4. The prisoners were queuing for their meagre rations .

5. The refugees queued up for their meagre rations of soup.

6. The meagre result hardly justified the risks they took to get it.

7. She eked out a meagre living as an artist's model.

8. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise.

9. The injured climbers had only meagre supplies of water and peanuts to live off.

10. The prisoners existed on a meagre diet of rice and fish.

11. I took a meagre 22 flights.

12. Government regulation offers a meagre defence against Hollywood.

13. What did they do for their meagre earnings?

14. Most of its meagre income comes from donors.

15. Even this meagre effort is a struggle.

16. It offers meagre consolation for Mr Barak after Monday's killing in Jerusalem.

17. But if you have to manage on meagre resources, you will cope well.

17. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

18. That sum augmented the meagre penny per week given by Dad.

19. He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.

20. Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had.

21. He gets fifty thousand pounds a year while I get a meagre twenty!

22. The revolutionary intelligentsia were to assume an importance out of all proportion to their meagre numbers.

23. However, Labour's urban policy can not be perceived as anything other than meagre.

24. One can only wonder what kept Alpine dwellers pinned to their meagre existence beyond habit, tradition and nowhere else to go.

25. As art criticism, it has the merit of making a judgement, though description and interpretation may be meagre.

26. I saw it as a never-ending drain on our meagre stock of rope and timber.

27. I also couldn't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games.

28. The fee basis for unsuccessful claims can often be extremely meagre as can profitability in general for a significant proportion of the work.

29. Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre, and out of proportion to the city's importance.

30. The Association was extremely successful in improving the lot of Bank Officials who previously had meagre earnings and poor conditions of employment.

1. He busked to supplement his meagre wages.

2. The injured climbers had only meagre supplies of water and peanuts to live off.

31. The meagre little peelings falling from her knife into water eased her, their ordinariness was a link with real life.

32. There was no prospect that the tradition-bound villagers would pool their meagre resources to experiment in collective farming.

33. We have sent a donation out of our as yet meagre little store of funds.

34. Meagre amounts of food were bartered by the less unfortunate to the starving in return for land and equipment.

35. They paraded the smart streets of West London, displaying their meagre weekly rations.

36. The playing bondholders were also asked to pay the new extra, voluntary subscription and non-players had to forego their meagre interest.

37. Police commanders claim the area is too large and their resources too meagre to tackle the crisis effectively.

38. This has ranged from a weekly average of just 3.7 complaints in Crook to an even more meagre 2.3 in Chester-le-Street.

39. Most lived in rural areas, where they eked out meagre livings as cultivators.

40. He stood under the meagre bulb in the odd-shaped room with its barred window.

41. Black marketeers and moneylenders mushroomed. In the hinterland(), the peasants' meagre savings evaporated rapidly.

42. Her meagre supply of water runs out, and she puts Ishmael in the shade of a bush to die.

43. They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit.

44. The velocity, the sheer power and the technology of the rocket perhaps makes all the more pitiful our meagre destiny.

45. Clearly he's struggling to make ends meet on his meagre salary.

46. When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.

47. Kadiatu and her family live on a meagre rice diet and so suffer from protein and calorie malnutrition.

48. Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming.

49. The failure of this meagre adornment seemed only to intensify the air of sadness, like decorations on a dead Christmas tree.

50. Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform.

51. The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.

52. The sudden warmth, meagre though it was, drew Isabel like a magnet.

53. Local authorities across the country have therefore been unable, and unwilling, to part with their own meagre resources.

54. His knowledge of Chinese history is meagre.

55. a meagre diet of bread and water.

56. The show is drawing but a meagre audience.

57. Particulars are too meagre to form a decision.

58. The resources of New York are rather meagre.

59. The meagre Latin class recited with honor.

60. She grew thin and meagre.

61. The patient isn't restricted to a meagre diet.

62. That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.

63. Gerard Vilage, an art teacher from Paris's Beaux Arts Ateliers, said: "How can we teach drawing without these people, if they are left with meagre pay and no protection?"http:///meagre.html

64. The harvest of maize , the local staple food , was meagre this year.

65. Our knowledge regarding the effects of ionizing radiations is still meagre.

66. In his plain old suit of black, he looked pale and meagre.

67. From St. Mark, whose account of the Precursor's life is very meagre , no new detail can be gathered.

68. The price support is meagre and awkwardly designed, according to Bob Cropp, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

69. Meanwhile, component prices are plunging, overcapacity is rife and margins are meagre.

70. They lived on meagre government grants in their student days.

71. An unjust cause finds meagre [ little ] support .

72. The diet should be suitable, being neither too rich nor too meagre.

73. Being dumped by Honda left the Northamptonshire-based squad celebrating a meagre Christmas, so even finding the finances to make it to round one was an achievement.

74. I already meagre monthly retirement pay, now going back to the half stone in the road, this is not simply economic Housing economy.

75. New comers cannot believe the place to be as meagre as it is described.

76. He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron.

77. In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.

78. How can we quadruple the GNP with such meagre imports and exports?