He was shocked to feel a prick of anger that someone had shared their meager stock of food.

They pooled meager stocks of coffee and food, and walked to the gathering through pitch-black streets.

Polish resistance provided the insurgents with a limited number of badly needed weapons and ammunitions from its meager stocks.

The liquor store was no more-its meager stock of generic beer, wine and spirits looted and put to the torch.

Customers quickly exhausted their meager stocks.

And people died in blizzards when their meager stocks of food and fuel ran out.

With the meager stock of transport he had available, his men just couldn't have been concentrated that fast.

Market stalls have meager stocks of flour, sugar and rice.

In addition, the war brought looters, who stole beds and other furniture from the institution's meager stocks.

At an office supply and computer parts store here, salesmen are down to their last meager stocks of ink cartridges, computer disks and paper punches.