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Example sentences for: measly

How can you use “measly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But having shelled out $168 million for the magazine, Newhouse was not satisfied with the measly $5 million a year it was earning.
He had five measly points while his sidekick, Scottie Pippen, had scorched the Bullets for 17.
Ripping, whopper `lie,' nunky for `uncle,' take a pew `seat,' on their jiggers `bicycles,' playing the goat, a measly solicitor, cad, and rotter, and similar expressions were all part of typical schoolboy slang before World War II, and F.R.
Kasich's proposed corporate-welfare package draws together a measly $11.
Why didn't they take their solution and their measly academic salaries and start trading options?