Scant in a sentence as a verb

This was only a scant 20 or so years ago.

Of these, 60,000 were killed and only a scant 200 were returned to the United States.

This is to be expected in any poor society where people are competing for scant resources.

" and only a scant few paragraphs later is an entire article written by a woman telling men how they should act and feel.

I'm not interested in standing in line at the Second Step for hours while my body consumes itself and I burn through the scant amount of oxygen I have.

Scant in a sentence as an adjective

Angkor came later, but evidence is scant regarding the nature of its relationship to other kingdoms such as Champa and Zhenla.

This advisory is scant on details, but this extension protocol[0] neither looks complex nor beyond mechanical code generation to me. Just simple enough to be dangerous.

The ability to code a scant few hundred lines and nevertheless have that become a full-featured, rich, beautiful, and complete layout for a web page or a web app UI is tremendously powerful, and it's no wonder that high end web devs and designers take advantage of that.

In \n which mail is encrypted—using public keys in a web of \n trust—within users’ own computers, in their browsers, and \n in which email at rest at Google is encrypted using \n algorithms to which the user rather than Google has the \n relevant keys.\n\n This means donating Gmail’s scant profit to the world, \n consistent with the idea that the Net belongs to its users \n throughout the world.

As noted in a fantastic article by Moxie Marlinspike, laws can't be overturned without people breaking those laws: drug laws won't be overturned without people breaking the laws and using the ***** and wanting them to be legal, etc.> Unfortunately, during the Snowden affair, many news outlets have spent more time examining ways the government could abuse the information it has access to while giving scant mention to the lengths to which the intelligence community goes to protect privacy.

Scant definitions

verb

work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

See also: skimp

verb

limit in quality or quantity

See also: skimp

verb

supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

See also: stint skimp

adjective

less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

See also: light short