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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.
Kasich's proposed corporate-welfare package draws together a measly $11.
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.
Why didn't they take their solution and their measly academic salaries and start trading options?