Use of paltry in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include paltry at the start of sentence, paltry at the end of sentence and paltry in the middle of sentence

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paltry at the end of sentence


  1. The burst of issuance yesterday followed a slow start Tuesday and Wednesday, when new borrowing was paltry.
  2. Yet by the standards of current advertising and sponsorship the sums involved and the use made of sport by advertisers was paltry.

paltry in the middle of sentence


  1. She made some paltry excuse and left.
  2. He received only a paltry £25 a day.
  3. the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature.
  4. There was something paltry about it , after all.
  5. The company offered Jeremy a paltry sum which he refused.
  6. This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.
  7. paltry charges, it would seem, for so celebrated a spook.
  8. Many of the workers in the factory received a paltry $2 a day.
  9. Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered.
  10. Last year workers were offered a paltry raise of only one percent.
  11. This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose.
  12. A paltry 5 % reduction of the 1990 level has been set, but by when?
  13. That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum.
  14. Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
  15. But aside from Evita City, there is paltry physical evidence of her existence.
  16. And it approves 2.5m applications to stay a year: Britain lets in a paltry 129,000.
  17. The site will open in November with a rather paltry 100 tracks available for download.
  18. Club owners in Kansas City paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work.
  19. Cover is a paltry three bucks, and further questions can be answered by calling 622-8848.
  20. But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum.
  21. But the pay is paltry compared with the hundreds that can be made on a good day of lobstering.
  22. Little of these paltry sums is likely to be new money, most being sliced off existing allocations.
  23. They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
  24. What kind of kidnapper would sit down and write a three-page ransom note demanding a paltry $ 118, 000?
  25. They paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work and much freedom over what they played.
  26. Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 2. 7 percent.
  27. With commitment and amounts of cash that seemed paltry when compared with government defence budgets, that problem could be solved.

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