1.   Another surgeon decided to supplement his meager salary by moving into his garage.

2.   Corrupt employees who earn meager salaries are paid to smuggle narcotics or look the other way.

3.   He sometimes goes months without his meager salary, and he and his neighbors recently endured a few weeks without heat.

4.   He would pay for the skates, a hot dog and a milkshake on his meager salary.

5.   I charged whatever I wanted, and I put most of my meager salary back into credit card payments.

6.   In those days reporters were expected to supplement their meager salaries with the unending supply of freebies doled out by newspaper management.

7.   Prices of bread and cornmeal break meager monthly salaries.

8.   When are we going to stop subtracting the cost of their pencils and paper from the already meager salaries of teachers?

9.   Would this rather meager salary draw brilliant minds into the profession?

10.   Paying meager salaries and demanding high moral standards is simply asking too much.