Significados de scant food em inglês

With crops failing and cattle dying, there was scant food to share.

They began grazing on such scant food as they could find.

The neglect and scant food of the lean years had cost them their reputation.

The scant food they were given, the searches conducted without warning by the German soldiers.

About five, after some scant food, we were told to get up and go downstairs.

He was feeling very sad, for he was thinking of his ragged clothes and his scant food.

The following winter found them with a scant food supply, and Government aid was neccessaryto relieve suffering.

He describes it as a desolate region, with but scant food, and declares that the voyage thither is dangerous and arduous.

She'd taken to talking to Alessandra's two finches, complaining about the scant food, the inferior quality of the linens, and the cold.

Since neither army would be on its home ground, and Greece had scant food, that meant food supplies must be transported by sea.

Eight-year-old Muzammal remembers the long hours and scant food he and two brothers endured after their father sent them to an agent in the UAE.

Some wearing only dressing gowns and sneakers, they fled Tskhinvali and surrounding villages carrying plastic bags of clothes and documents, and some scant food supplies.

"It might be a good idea," agreed the lad, as he thought of the scant food supply.

"It may be," said Nigel, "that they have scant food or water, and so must come forth to fight us."