Ma'anar ƙamus na kalmar "meagre" (kuma an rubuta "meager" a cikin Ingilishi na Amurka) ba shi da yawa ko inganci; bai isa ba, karama, ko kadan. Hakanan yana iya nufin siriri ko maras kyau, musamman saboda rashin abinci ko kayan aiki. Ana iya amfani da kalmar don kwatanta abubuwa kamar abinci, albarkatu, samun kudin shiga, ko sakamakon da ba su gamsu da ƙanƙanta ko rashin isa ba.
1. I take a sip of water and eat half a protein bar from my meagre rations.
2. Jack settled for passing what meagre news he had collected from the men to Dan.
3. It took years of toil, blood, sweat, and tears to put together even the most meagre of housing for everyone, but my power helped as I scoured any book I could scavenge on construction to make things even the slightest bit easier.
4. Worms had ingested and defecated it, and the meagre acid in their stomachs had pitted and scarred it even further.
5. His wife, on the contrary, whose maiden name had been Madeleine Radelle, was pale, meagre, and sickly-looking.
6. There it lay stretching out into one interminable line of dust and sand, with its sides bordered by tall, meagre trees, altogether presenting so uninviting an appearance, that no one in his senses could have imagined that any traveller, at liberty to regulate his hours for journeying, would choose to expose himself in such a formidable Sahara.
7. From being slender he had now become meagre once pale, he was now yellow his deep-set eyes were hollow, and the gold spectacles shielding his eyes seemed to be an integral portion of his face.
8. Choking on the dust, the three men riding slowly along the ridge looked dejected and defeated as the relentless outback sun sucked the life out of the parched, cracked earth, turning the meagre pastures into dustbowls.
9. Being half-drunk helped, too, with whatever meagre hint of modesty she might have still had at sitting here, playing with her breasts exposed.
10. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.