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Meanings of meagerly in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sparingly"
Examples for "sparingly"
1
Please continue to use electricity sparingly and to switch off non-essential appliances.
2
Eskom has urged the public to use electricity sparingly over peak times.
3
Impeachment is a constitutional option used sparingly by Congress against a president.
4
A little goes a long way with this formula, so use sparingly.
5
In contrast, Democrats' recent Facebook ads have referred to impeachment only sparingly.
1
Her shoulders and her hips had the same long, slenderly sloping curves.
2
We are here but badly victualled, and furnished with mouth-harness very slenderly.
3
She was slenderly built, of middle height, and had a good figure.
4
Lord William Newbury was a man of sixty-five, tall and slenderly built.
5
Mr. Drew is about five feet ten inches high, and slenderly made.
1
A great walnut monstrosity meagrely equipped performed the functions of a sideboard.
2
Red Cross history would fill a big volume, no matter how meagrely told.
3
The Committee of 1824 was but meagrely supplied with evidence as to foreign surveys.
4
She brought him to rest in a small, meagrely furnished but delightfully scented room.
5
It was her bedroom, meagrely furnished, but in perfect order.
Usage of meagerly in English
1
The only thing down here is a dank, meagerly stocked root cellar.
2
The Daguerrean plate and the Aeolian harp do but meagerly interpret his receptivity.
3
It was small, meagerly furnished, and offensive from want of cleanliness.
4
As I have said, the common table was meagerly kept.
5
They were all children, meagerly clothed, badly nourished, ill developed.
6
The room was small, and meagerly furnished, though every thing was clean and in order.
7
He found, in two small, meagerly furnished rooms, a man, his wife, and three children.
8
Hans and Joachim have been having a long discussion in German, which I understand but meagerly.
9
The adjoining bedroom was small and meagerly furnished.
10
Jennifer walked into a meagerly furnished living room.
11
And earn just enough to live upon meagerly?
12
This Darwinian theory integrating serotonin, status, and impulsive violence remains meagerly tested and is no doubt oversimplified.
13
But he was more meagerly supplied with the media of conversation than any person I ever met.
14
For a young woman to dream of a barber, foretells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly.
15
In the somewhat meagerly-furnished bedroom there were not a great many hiding-places, and Carrie began her search systematically.
16
And Ramon, accustomed to the meagerly furnished adobes of old Mexico, thought that the ranch-house was beautiful indeed.
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