Akaki lived very ascetic life with a very meager diet.

But grain was necessary to keep the livestock fed, and bread was needed to supplement their meager diet of meat.

And that people have such meager diets that they are lethargic.

Fortunately, the menu was not inspired by Buckley's presumably meager diet.

Both he and Kozhedub also realized the meager diet of rice they received was a problem.

Another common pest is lice; some 'convicts' have been known to eat them to supplement their meager diet.

They survive on a meager diet of ice and rock, which they get by dipping into the rings.

Sailors might hope to supplement their meager diets with fish if they were lucky enough to catch them.

Ribs showed through the holes in their tattered shirts from the meager, unwholesome diet.

Even if caloric restriction does prove to prolong human life, very few people could adhere to such a meager diet.