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Example sentences for: meager

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With the harvests of its Hida mountain district too meager to contribute taxes to the national treasury, the town sent instead its skillful artisans (Hida no takumi) to help build the temples and palaces of the imperial capital.
The daughter of long-divorced parents--a mother who is a New Age therapist and a father who was a Grateful Dead hanger-on--Courtney left home while in her teens and blew a meager trust fund traveling the world.
Since the actor is only 23, this means scouring a rather meager past.
There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk.
Most hours of the morning there are ships coming ashore with their meager, but extremely fresh, catch.