Example sentences for: scant

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

  • According to the Times , the report's principal investigator said he got scant help from the U.S.

  • In Roman times a long colonnaded stoa and promenade linked the two theaters, but only scant remains can be seen today.

  • Albright's biographers offer an inspiring narrative of how she succeeded in becoming secretary of state, but they offer scant grounds for evaluating what has happened since.

  • Back in the 1960s when Medicaid passed into law with scant attention, a few brave analysts dared to suggest that the poor might be better served at far lower cost if the money were spent on developing well-staffed, multidisciplinary health clinics in chronically underserved inner cities and rural areas--sort of like, well, HMOs.

  • However, because of its reluctance to privatize, foreign investment is scant, and growth has been lower than predicted.


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