In the early 1960s, he played the stock market and invested his meager savings, along with money borrowed from his father-in-law.

Wine, women and gambling, necessary outlets, often consumed their meager savings.

She used her meager savings to feed her children because shelter food made them sick.

She has lived off her meager savings since.

To survive, he said, he has been using his meager savings to buy food.

What kind of security can those meager savings buy for such times of real need as unemployment, retirement and health crises?

In the meantime, I'd already spent my meager savings replacing the gas tank that somebody'd shot an arrow through.

Her meager savings were just enough to pay her passage to Honolulu.

The meager savings he had amassed from the funds which floated through the temple were of no concern to him now.

Her meager savings (meant, at one time, to pay for college tuition) were soon gone.