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Meanings of tiny in English
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Examples for "diminutive"
Examples for "diminutive"
1
It was the way he said his name, still using the diminutive.
2
Despite her diminutive size, she gave a good impression of fierce looming.
3
Eberhard lighted the six candles of a chandelier in his diminutive room.
4
The HP Veer is a pretty great phone, despite its diminutive appearance.
5
Lysandra stiffened at his familiar use of her name in the diminutive.
1
In our opinion, petite and plus sizes shouldn't be considered special categories.
2
She inquired perpetually after the health of cette pauvre petite Miss Clara.
3
AA: Eve was a tiny, petite young woman with a huge heart.
4
The floor length, ivory coloured lace gown showed off Franklin's petite figure.
5
Paloma was petite and well proportioned, and the gowns were altogether charming.
1
The midget said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
2
That midget Barrett pays the customs people off to avoid the duties.
3
Zinka was a Ukrainian midget, a dancer with the Borzoi Dance Company.
4
But excuse me, said the now jovial midget as he walked away.
5
Why not just get a midget hooker and be done with it?
1
He had intended to clean up this bantam in about a minute.
2
His blood was up and he strangely resembled a little bantam cockerel.
3
He's a brave little chap, but such a bantam one must laugh.
4
Oh, she was a little tripping Tartar of a bantam hen then.
5
But I'll soon show you down to the boat, my young bantam!
1
He felt himself bound and pricked by a thousand delicate lilliputian bonds.
2
This is a pity, as their lilliputian self-assertion is most amusing.
3
In the middle of the lilliputian ranks the giant smoke-clouds leap like hellish gods.
4
This kite system is like fitting a gigantic sail to a lilliputian boat, d'ye see?
5
The lilliputian vehicles are ubiquitous in Japan - and they would be here, if Detroit had any sense.
1
Tom looked up and saw a tiny flyspeck roaring straight down at the ship.
2
You just happened to be in that flyspeck village.
3
But it turned out that the plain-spoken presidential candidate from flyspeck Paint Creek, Texas, was all hat and no cattle.
4
Blue Hubbard) from China and the USA that exhibited sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) signs on their host substrata.
5
Fungi in the sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) complex cause blemishes on apple and pear fruit that result in economic losses for growers.
Usage of tiny in English
1
The basic idea is to break the problem into tiny time steps.
2
Speech which is free is selfannihilatiing, whether in tiny or great amounts.
3
Here is the second crystal: see how tiny: yet it's all there.
4
Ten times higher than the two tiny figures working at floor level.
5
Big car companies don't target tiny minorities, they target the mass market.
6
Cyprus is a tiny country, far away and arguably someone else's problem.
7
Source: Tunisia Jews: A tiny community hanging on - and cooking 5.
8
In contrast, the S&P 500 posted a tiny loss for the year.
9
Even a very tiny provocation could result in regional deterioration, Nisman said.
10
They were far superior to the tiny strip farms of earlier years.
11
You only need to feed your fish a tiny amount each day.
12
A surprising number of these tiny geniuses are still at it today.
13
None of the tiny animals attacked Raff; all were afraid of him.
14
A tiny trail of smoke curled up; and faded in the blue.
15
The tiny state finally had a reliable and first-rate national arms supplier.
16
For a growing number of home hunters, tiny is the new big.
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