Example Sentences

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Explaining how Tuesday's figures had dwarfed that traffic, Flightradar24 said: "Based on our experience last month, we expected a large influx of users, but this immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated."

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2022

The sight of her had dwarfed everything; the thought of her disgusted me with everything, made me out of conceit with the world—with that part of the world that had become my world.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

But the effort of the national struggle had dwarfed all these misunderstandings and misfortunes as in Great Britain the call of the common fatherland has dwarfed the dispute between Unionists and Home Rulers.

From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

The atomic bombs had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance.

From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Distance had dwarfed them, and the cold regard of those mighty peaks ignored them.

From Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron