Sentence example with the word 'exiguous'

exiguous

abstemious, dinky, jejune, miserly, piddling, scant, scrimpy, slender, sparse, stunted, watered

Definition adj. extremely scanty

Last update: October 18, 2015


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For the extremely exiguous proportions of some chasubles actually in use, which have been robbed of all the beauty of form they ever possessed, less respectable motives have sometimes been responsible, viz.   [adjective]

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These had their usual exiguous leaves and some were pale violet and a handful had white flowers.   [adjective]

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Liosha joined us, accompanied by a porter, carrying their exiguous baggage.   [Please select]

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They raided the delicatessen at eleven o'clock, and made an exiguous meal on the plunder.'   [Please select]

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Perhaps in her girlhood, when I had often seen her in such exiguous finery, they had not been so shapely.   [Please select]

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From his earliest memories they were the first to be fed, clothed and bedded; to his own share fell the exiguous scraps.   [Please select]

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