How to Use "meager" with Example Sentences

1. Other elderly people resort to petty theft to increase their meager purchasing power .
2. Sooner or later investors will face either a loss of money , or at best meager returns .
3. After they reject the government 's compensation as too meager , a dark campaign of harassment ensues .
4. He was very good to me gave me some research work to supplement my meager income and invited me to his house for dinner .
5. Now , they live off the meager earnings brought in by the shepherd 's wife , who works as an apartment guard in the building where the family is living .