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How to use scant in a sentence

Such drill holes augment the scant fossil record of octopus evolution.

Details about the project are scant, but here’s what we know about it.

So far, however, there’s scant detail on what this pivot actually means beyond what’s been teased in the video used to launch the partnership.

There’s scant clinical evidence that a 12-week gap will be as effective as a 21-day one.

Their actions drew scant condemnation from Western politicians.

History gives them scant notice, and the Federal government has failed to reward them as they deserve.

The big gray sedan carrying Delancy and his pals, hit the suburban town at a scant seventy miles an hour.

But, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.

On arriving he tendered the driver sixpence, which was strictly the fare, though but scant remuneration for the distance.

These flats were free from stones and covered with a scant growth of cottonwoods and pions.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

WORD OF THE DAY