Ammannati took on the challenge of interpreting Michelangelo's ideas to the best of his abilities using a small clay model, scanty material, and Michelangelo's instructions.

Trying to make one out of the scanty materials that were available, Jondalar cut a fairly long, thin piece out of a plank with the sharp chisel tool.

To do Almira justice, she prepared from her scanty materials a very substantial breakfast in an incredibly short time, for which she charged us a quarter of a dollar per head.

Sánchez wrote in his book, "Few Institutions have begun their lives in this world with such scanty material means as did our University."

She could make a poor and scanty material go a great way in setting off her attractions.

From what we know of scanty early written material, by the 5th century the Germanic languages were already "sufficiently different to render communication between the various peoples impossible".

Mr. O'Rourke is studying a report he requested from the County Archivist, David Carmicheal, evaluating the scanty material that could determine who owns what.

In the last sixty years, however, this scanty material has been substantially augmented by archaeology.

Doc was piecing together the scanty material he had.

And somehow, with month-long calculations a machine could have performed in seconds, they were bringing the old, involved theories down to a level where they might possibly be handled with the scanty materials remaining.