How to use scant in a sentence

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• What corn and sorghum we'd raised when I was a kid had survived on our scant rainfall.2015, Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry, Penguin, →ISBN…. From the entry hypergreen
• Scant on furniture, the living room and halls had bare walls and a slight smell of toe-jam.2010, J.J. Brito, “South Africa: Dolphins and Dead Men”, in The World’s Richest Busboy: A True Story of One Guy’s Unpredictable Life on…. From the entry toe-jam
• For a day he did scant else but enhowl himself to a pitisome hoarseness.1923, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, page 246. From the entry pitisome
• We have scant inclination to elucidate his aniadum and aquastor, or explain his evestrum and erodinium.[1912, Victor Robinson, Pathfinders in Medicine, page 52. From the entry aquastor
• In humans, the science is much more scant.2023 May 19, Sarah Zhang, “Ozempic’s Next Act”, in The Atlantic. From the entry exenatide
• One of the patients he had seen was a pubic groomer, so there was scant hair in the man's groin.2021 February 2, Ina Park, Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs, Flatiron Books, →ISBN. From the entry groomer
• The TiVo-Amazon service offers cineastes thousands of movies to rent, compared with the scant mainstream-only offerings of cable’s pay-per-view services.2007 July 26, John R. Quain, “Cable Without a Cable Box, and TV Shows Without a TV”, in New York Times. From the entry cineaste
• The only light was the scant lumination that flickered upon the floor cast by a torch far down the hall.2001, Robert R. Hotchkiss, “In the Palace Dungeon”, in Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Shaldrodan Saga; book 1)…. From the entry lumination
• The Japanese tea-party (cha-no-yu) is stiffness, ceremony, scant provisions.1985, Travellers' tales of old Japan, page 226. From the entry lukewarmer
• Set defenses permitted a coach to plan an attack with scant worry as to where he would find the offensive men.1964, Stanley Woodward, Paper Tiger: An Old Sportswriter's Reminiscences of People, Newspapers, War and Work, chapter 3, page 33 of the…. From the entry darkly
• Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions—his own or anybody else's.1960 August 29, “Great Britain: Somebody Out There Likes Us”, in Time. From the entry tough-minded
• Perhaps it is the scant, delicate detail revealing finer lines, which thus turns corners of Tuscany into an imaginary Hellas.1905, Vernon Lee [pseudonym; Violet Paget], The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays on the Genius of Places, London; New York, N.Y.: John…. From the entry sere
• Yet dragon man is stirring debate, with some experts suggesting it could be a Denisovan, a mysterious Neanderthal sister group represented by scant fossils.2021 November, Maya Wei-Haas, “Who was ‘Dragon Man’?”, in National Geographic, volume 240, number 5, page 22. From the entry dragon man
• He shows interestingly scant interest in the nonerotic and nonpsychological details of her existence; he prefers the hot stuff, just as his readers will.2009 April 9, Janet Maslin, “Doctor and Drug Abuser in Yearlong Tête-à-Tête”, in New York Times. From the entry nonpsychological
• The fact is there is no known portrait of either of the two astrometricians, and the information about their personal lives is scant.2003, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, ACSM Bulletin, Issues 201-212, page 15. From the entry astrometrician
• In that scant second that his lips claimed hers, Stacey felt herself suffused with warmth as a most unniecely heat flooded her body.1990, Candace Schuler, Wildcat, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry Stacey
• There has been scant information in the Chinese press as to how the scales are determined or where the eleven regions are.1968, Victor C. Funnell, “Social Stratification”, in Problems of Communism, volume 17, number 2, page 18. From the entry Hai-k'ou
• Janis and King (3) summarize the scant literature in this area and report an investigation in which rôle playing was carried out under laboratory conditions.1957, Julian C[ecil] Stanley, Herbert J[ohn] Klausmeier, “Opinion constancy after formal rôle playing”, in The Journal of Social…. From the entry rôle playing
• When neither Fenn nor the finder provided any, the tribe of dot connectors and pattern recognizers began subjecting the scant photographic documentation of the discovery to relentless analysis.2025 March 27, Benjamin Wallace, “The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dot connector
• It’s called radiation hormesis!—he has scant interest in the specifics of the apps that many YC companies produce; what intrigues him is their potential effect on the world.[2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker. From the entry hormesis
• This is an allusion to Hermes as the guide of souls, the psychopomp; an important element of Hermes' nature that receives only this scant mention in the Hymn.2012, Dennis L. Merritt, Hermes, Ecopsychology, and Complexity Theory, volume 3, page 43. From the entry psychopomp
• Watty's a kind-hearted creature ; and ye may be sure that neither scaith nor scant will be alloo't to come near the wean while it stays in this house.1936, John Galt, William Roughead, The entail: or, The lairds of Grippy, page 314. From the entry scaith
• Originally each shire was overseen by an ealdorman, who was charged with raising levies and perhaps also overseeing the local court (though the evidence is scant on the latter point).2016, Levi Roach, “Birth and Childhood: The Court of King Edgar, c. 966×9–75”, in Æthelred the Unready, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale…. From the entry shire

Meaning of scant

1. adjective Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
2. adjective Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
3. adjective Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.

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How do you use scant in a sentence?

Scant is used as an adjective, verb and determiner. For example: “The wind scants.”

What is a short sentence with scant?

“The wind scants.”

What does scant mean?

Scant means not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.