Example Sentences

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I mean that the purpose of quizzing is to discover the answers, to work with meagreness, to build sufficiency out of insufficiency.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2020

Despite its economic and aesthetic meagreness, its citizens have high aspirations.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019

At first, the life of the Bunyon legends was slightly endangered by a meagreness of French Canadian imagination.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike Mark Twain, Sir Henri was shocked�not by the report but by the meagreness of his obituary notices, the fact that he was confused with an obscure brother.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hinted at the chief cause of this meagreness and obscurity when I said, just now, that Red Eagle could not write.

From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by Eggleston, George Cary