The exiguous meal was not enough to satisfy their hunger. From LearnThat.org.
An exiguous budget. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : exiguous income. From Dictionary.com.
Often the Signal Office gives you the most exiguous information. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
If it cannot be reduced to their exiguous standard, so much the worse for it. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Very sleepily indeed we rode along an exiguous path by the side of the cobbles. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
A thin blouse and exiguous shorts showed most of her tawny-brown skin to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
Beyond this argument, there is only exiguous evidence for Archytas 'system of the physical world. From Wordnik.com. [Archytas] Reference
Such concerns not only seem exiguous; they are that, really, especially if you can get some help. From Wordnik.com. [Aweigh] Reference
Together they had a noble breakfast, with waffles, and coffee not in exiguous cups but in large pots. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
Newly energized, they gave the reins of their mounts over to others and struggled up the exiguous trail. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
We got up, had a cheery and exiguous breakfast to distant, intermittent firing, then did a little work on our bicycles. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
He felt insecure because his Catholic education was so exiguous — it amounted to one year at a Jesuit prep school in England. From Wordnik.com. [Daredevil] Reference
"We have already had hints," remarked Madame with some tartness, "that the royal authority becomes exiguous in the hinterlands.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
One of us spent all his spare time at this café in silent adoration -- of the piano, for his French was exiguous in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The linked site has an exiguous appendix on "Other unusual languages in science fiction" that would be extremely useful if expanded. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DARMOK.] Reference
This is a London egg, and this is London bacon, and this exiguous liquid which "laves the milk-jug with celestial blue" is London milk. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
It is a full-blooded judgment which, though it sounds a trifle exiguous to describe our manifold heroic efforts, is a sort of perpetual epithet. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
She whipped away the exiguous drapery and, instead of emitting the gasp or whistle that I had expected, asked briskly if I wanted any “shaping.”. From Wordnik.com. [On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part II] Reference
Such populations could contain a yeast, Saccharomyces exiguous, and one or two Lactobacillus species, namely Lb. brevis var. linderi II and Lb. sanfrancisco. From Wordnik.com. [1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes] Reference
There is nothing like a dashing band of rebels fighting for a good cause – particularly a dashing band of Irish rebels – to make myth out of exiguous reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Had Second Thoughts] Reference
It has a downtown so exiguous that a pedestrian outside its biggest office building at 9 on a weekday morning is a phenomenon as singular as a cow in Times Square. From Wordnik.com. [Bye-Bye, Suburban Dream] Reference
In the buttressed hollow of one of these palaeozoic cathedrals you are ashamed of your ribs, and blush for the exiguous pillars of bone on which your breathing structure reposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
If our pecuniary resources be exiguous, let our resolution. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Mesopotamia, both sides, with the most exiguous number of planes. From Wordnik.com. [The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad] Reference
Diving suddenly into the recesses of something, she produced an exiguous round silver box. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
The broken nose, the exiguous forehead, and the enlarged ears all clamoured for recognition. From Wordnik.com. [Piccadilly Jim] Reference
Her exiguous legs twinkled all over the parlour, and she had the oddest appearance in the parlour. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
At the best of times, the money which my parents had to spend was an exiguous and an inelastic sum. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
Perhaps in her girlhood, when I had often seen her in such exiguous finery, they had not been so shapely. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
Women in dreams of diaphanous and exiguous raiment stared derisively at the trio as they passed their tables. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
Junker army embarked on the War, and the exiguous and shadowy fruits of their boasted victories up to the present. From Wordnik.com. [Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers] Reference
She had, however, the advantage of having seen them; she was not called to make an exiguous evocation from the void. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
She arrived punctually at eight o'clock next Sunday, carrying an exiguous green linen bag, which contained her dresses. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
But my Portuguese was dinner-table talk of the purely necessary order, and my companion's was more exiguous than my own. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Notebook] Reference
Flora saw her father trembling in all his exiguous length, though he held himself stiffer than ever if that was possible. From Wordnik.com. [Chance A Tale in Two Parts] Reference
Men were bringing in a grove of evergreens, intended to border the staircase, and make its exiguous ascent still more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
But so exiguous an expeditionary force could not have maintained itself in that isolated situation in face of swelling hostile numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918] Reference
Your Commissioners recommend the building of a stone harbour out to sea without encroaching on the already exiguous dimensions of the land. From Wordnik.com. [On Something] Reference
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