Sentence for meagre | Use meagre in a sentence

Sentences using the word meagre. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use meagre in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for meagre.

  • It was snowing, and the cold had nipped and yellowed his meagre face between its slight grey whiskering. (8)
  • There were magnificent vegetables of all sorts in it, and if the fruits were meagre that was the fault of the rainy summer, perhaps. (9)
  • Escape was impossible, so we began to parley, and asked the way to a wine-shop with as much politeness as our meagre vocabulary allowed. (20)
  • Still she had the consolation that Rose, seeing the vulgar mother, might turn from Evan: a poor distant hope, meagre and shapeless like herself. (10)

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Definition of meagre:

  • meagre, m’gr, adj_. having little flesh: lean: poor: without richness or fertility: barren: scanty: without strength. | adv_. mea’grely. | n_. mea’greness, state or quality of being meagre. (0)

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