How to Use "meagre" with Example Sentences

1. Budgets for running jails tend to be meagre .

2. Its nominal gdp-growth targets are meagre .

3. My attainments were few , my knowledge of life meagre , and both in my poetry and my prose the sentiment exceeded the substance .

4. Meagre returns have not helped .

5. Britain fails to hand out even its meagre allocation of work visas .