Example Sentences

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After the wheel landed at 95 cents, Choi celebrated again, this time yelling and meagerly lifting his uninjured left arm as his wife leaped and threw both hands in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

The vast majority are from big centers and power forwards from bygone eras, who made their livings in the post and pushed around anyone who meagerly tried to stop them.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2021

When a professorship of Latin at University College London opened up, the meagerly paid government clerk and Oxford flunkout applied for the job.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2017

The house did not appear to have been searched, and the only thing that was missing was her white straw handbag, containing a meagerly stocked wallet.

From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2016

On the contrary, I was amazed and sometimes saddened by the pride people took in jobs that rewarded them so meagerly, either in wages or in recognition.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich