scant

Example Sentences

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"Breast milk can come if there is something to eat, but now there is nothing," she said, gently rocking Riak under the scant protection of a cotton sheet.

From Barron's

With scant information given by the various sides, back at the Intercontinental, vehicle registration plates gave away that the US delegation was sweeping in, straight from the Iran talks.

From Barron's

And yet historians, he tells us, have made scant use of it.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is scant evidence to support his claim.

From Barron's

Many countries have tried to reverse this trend, with scant success.

From The Wall Street Journal