How to Use "scanty" with Example Sentences
- 1. The rainfall was rather scanty this month .
- 2. The farmer 's financial difficulties were caused by a scanty harvest .
- 3. The quality or condition of being scanty or meager .
- 4. The scanty supply of food was distressing : with the keen appetites of growing children , we had scarcely sufficient food to keep alive a delicate invalid .
- 5. The stiff bristles at the tips of the pedicels are usually obvious , but may sometimes be scanty or even absent .