Example sentences for: scant

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

  • Even the scant remains of the Sea Venture (which sank in 1609) can be located and identified.

  • A friend recently pointed out that Keeping Tabs has paid relatively scant attention to the JonBenet Ramsey story, a failing of which she's well aware.

  • There are scant data to explain how long these new treatments will prevent disease and extend life--no formal studies have been completed that compare hundreds of treated people with hundreds of untreated people.

  • However, re-review of the original transbronchial biopsy showed that it had scant tumor cells (Table 1).

  • They manage to get Burke's heart started, but his brain shows only scant traces of activity; and in the hospital he keeps flatlining and being resuscitated--15, 16, 17 times.


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