Example sentences
But on the thorniest issues, the specifics are a little scanty.
We marched into the mansion's courtyard, paid off the donkey driver, and collapsed beside our scanty possessions.
With scanty resources, he did what he could, and did it fairly well.
He was petulant, false and possessed of but a scanty stock of brains.
But the main reason this huge river has always been such a commercial backwater is the scanty population along its course.
These appear when sunlight strikes tiny particles too scanty to appear as clouds.
As yet, though, scientific proof for such claims is scanty.
There admittedly is scanty evidence yet, but an effect here would be a bonus.
Regime after another has shown scanty interest to put the economy and governance on a robust and sound track.
They don't consider as wide a range of alternatives, and are more likely to jump to conclusions based on scanty evidence.