scanter
Example Sentences
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On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.
From Time Magazine Archive
With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
The valley soon shows itself in marked change from the fertile basin we have quitted; it grows bleak and less cultivated; rubbly slopes of shale and slate cover the hills; the vegetation becomes scanter.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
From this time Be something scanter of your maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate Than a command to parley.
From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William
The farther north they travelled the scanter became the growth of pine and poplar and willow.
From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
