Meanings of always smaller in English

Apple never reveals its iPhones' actual battery size, but they're almost always smaller than similarly-priced Androids.

Are well-known people always smaller than you expect?

Or are rabbits that seem to burrow almost entirely in ditches, stony and otherwise, always smaller?

But always smaller than the risk you run by treating people badly and goading them into a war.

Remember, the price of Aes Sedai help is always smaller than you can believe, always greater than you can imagine.

For long they could see him, plunging slowly forward through the drifts, getting always smaller and smaller, till distance and the growing darkness swallowed him.

Always smaller than it should be; the walls run closer and more complicated than the ones you remember.

"You are always smaller than me, motherfucker," he says.