scant
Example Sentences
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There is scant precedent in college football for this kind of move.
Details are scant, but according to French media the scheme would be voluntary, remunerated and last 10 months.
From BBC
Heather Goodall, the lead ALU organizer at the Albany warehouse, told the New York Times that her workers received scant support from Mr. Smalls, with infrequent and unpredictable visits.
From Washington Times
Russia will have lost so many troops and so much equipment trying to take a city of scant strategic value that it may have been better off never mounting an offensive.
From New York Times
These tenacious women have their hands full contending with scant resources, bands of predatory men and, ultimately, the capricious and insatiable demon unleashed across the prairie.
From Washington Post
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