His scanty clothing did not keep out the cold.
Such a scanty margin could mean Labour emerging as the biggest party in the next parliament.
China is a country characterized by its scanty land resources per capita and sharp conflicts between population and land.
I set out one afternoon to go a-fishing to Fair Haven, through the woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables.
In Google input "Oliver Howe, Lori" this name, can only get a few face blurred portraits, scanty news coverage, as well as the one published in 1951 of the academic papers.
Eke out a scanty subsistence by fishing
The quality or condition of being scanty or meager.
The stroma may be scanty or myxoid, as in this case.
Lily and the children could follow more slowly, harnessing the horse and cart to convey their scanty possessions.
The other, Mr William de Burgh Cokane, is probably over 40, possibly 50: an ill-nourished, scanty-haired gentleman, with affected manners: fidgety, touchy, and constitutionally ridiculous in uncomp- assionate eyes
Details of his life are scanty.
He was cut off from all but a scanty radio communication with his armies.
Although research is scanty a recent Health Ministry survey suggests that the need for more specialists is growing fast.
They would shave off her hair feed her on a scanty allowance of rice, treat her with contempt; she would be looked upon as an unclean creature, and would die in some corner, like a scurvy dog.
The beggar shivered in his scanty clothes.
Blurred vision, tinnitus, nocturnal spermatorrhea, aching of the lower back, thready and weak pulse, red tongue, scanty coating.
The hope passes this contribute money, can aid people of stricken be hit by a natural adversity area to walk out of predicament in order to exhaust scanty power.
bikini ( scanty two-piece costume worn by women for swimming and sun-bathing)
Most other European jurisdictions (and Scotland) take a flintier view: maintenance payments are scanty; only assets accumulated during the marriage are up for grabs.
Insufficiency of body fluid may cause the clinical manifestations: dryness of the mouth and throat, dry lips and tongue, subsidence of eyes, dry skin, scanty urine, constipation, a red tongue with scanty saliva and thready, rapid pulse.
Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
a scanty bathing suit
His knowledge of mathematics is superficial and scanty.
Now he traversed Switzerland, attracting great crowds, despoiling the poor peasants of their scanty earnings, and exacting rich gifts from the wealthy classes.
After gazing on such a landscape the brown, harsh, scanty vegetation of the Hill-top seemed all the more grateful.
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