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• Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.From the entry pare
• Jack gathered his meager ration of food.From the entry ration
• By October it was advancing steadily toward Pangwa, encountering meager resistance.2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization…. From the entry October
• They report that the meager browse of gauchers is often adequate during the rainy season.1997, Paul Robbins, Negotiating Ecology, page 213. From the entry gaucher
• So here, with apologies are a few meager offerings from these dudeless wastes.1992, Maximum Rocknroll. From the entry dudeless
• When financial contributions were called for, we would "pass the hat" rather than tap our meager treasury.1988 February 14, Richard Tremblay, “A Boat With A Sail”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 5. From the entry pass the hat
• The data on which the foregoing estimate is based are very meager.1973, Franklin Howard Olmsted, Omar Joseph Loeltz, Burdge Irelan, Geohydrology of the Yuma Area, Arizona and California. From the entry limitrophe
• The meager X-ray facts are woefully inadequate and there is nothing upon modern roentgen-cardiography.1924 November, “Physical Diagnosis by Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Professor of Medicine in Harvard University, Formerly Chief of the West…. From the entry oh well
• You may have to skip some tasty looking dishes, and in certain circumstances may end up with a rather meager meal.2019, John Beckett, Paganism In Depth: A Polytheist Approach, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN. From the entry geas
• Now I must admit that unlike many of you fellow Candy Crushers I am only on a meager level 50.2013 October 24, Kimberlei N. Davis, “‘Sweet,’ ‘tasty,’ ‘delicious’ … ‘Sugar Crush’”, in The Times and Democrat, volume 132, number 297…. From the entry Candy Crusher
• Like many Gloucester fishermen in the late twentieth century, the Sanfilippos are from Sicily, where catches were meager and boats small.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 228. From the entry purse-seine
• With a meager budget, the decision was made to go to a new construction site after dark to borrow some needed lumber.2017 January 25, Lloyd Amstrup, Found Treasure: Gems of Great Leadership and Personal Skills, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry ninja
• Being from a lower caste, she earns her meager livelihood by cleaning the stairs and guarding the locality (the conventional roles are topsy turvyed).2007, “Portrayal of Diaspora Experiences”, in Basavaraj Naikar, editor, Indian English Literature, volume II, New Delhi: Atlantic…. From the entry topsy-turvy
• The floor was a veritable mud puddle, and even the meager bedding of old reindeer skins was wet from the dripping walls and ceiling.1939, Hygeia, volume 17, numbers 1-6, page 331. From the entry untenable
• A meager talent for sketching and crayon work led me to attempt crude picturizations involving the outlandish denizens of my nighted thoughts.1935, Robert Bloch, The Shambler from the Stars. From the entry picturization
• This was the only foreign hair, a facial hair, recovered from the victim’s body, and, at that stage of the investigation, the hair evidence seemed pretty meager.2001, Richard E. Bisbing, “Finding Trace Evidence”, in Max M. Houck, editor, Mute Witnesses: Trace Evidence Analysis, London; San Diego…. From the entry facial hair
• The juice from its hydro-power dam was needed to supply meager light to a million homes and to cook the pablum for two million brand-new babies.1957 October, Frederik Pohl, C[yril] M. Kornbluth, “Wolfbane […]. Chapter III.”, in The Galaxy. […], volume 14, number 6, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry pablum
• This meager uptake was assumed to indicate that the polyphenol oxidase system was either absent from or relatively weak in the roots of the yellow wax bean.1948, Austin Clayton Wagenknecht, Effect of Growth Regulators on Certain Plant Enzymes, page 21. From the entry yellow wax bean
• For all his inherited size and strength he was, after all, only a little boy—a frightened, homesick little boy—reasoning faultily from the meager experience of childhood.1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published…. From the entry faultily
• The balance of resources expended to keep children under five safe from vaccinable diseases is questioned, given the meager resources expended to improve the quality of life for child survivors.1996, Mark Nichter, “Vaccinations in the Third World”, in Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies, page 333. From the entry vaccinable

Meaning of meager

1. adjective Having little flesh; lean; thin.
2. adjective Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent.
3. adjective Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.

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How do you use meager in a sentence?

Meager is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “A meager piece of cake in one bite.”

What is a short sentence with meager?

“Jack gathered his meager ration of food.”

What does meager mean?

Meager means having little flesh; lean; thin.