Examples of meagre

• Elderly people subsisting on meagre incomes in council accommodation.

• In 1936, 450,000 older people received the meagre benefits granted to the poor, among them many redundant and unemployed older workers.

• Efforts to find empirical evidence of opportunistic business cycles have turned up rather meagre results.

• I have tried to use the same materials, however meagre, to explore the range of behaviours and attitudes of women.

• Table 4 gives the birth rank of obese children in sibships of sizes 2 and 3; data for larger sibships are too meagre for consideration.

• Wages and other official payments to loyal employees were meagre due to the state's financial difficulties during the war.

• The work represents quite an achievement given the meagre funding available to polar tourism researchers.

• Some of those who witnessed this new player on the political stage rushed home to hide their meagre possessions in safe places.