small letter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Vanessa Bryant was the first to write a small letter to her daughter on Saturday.
From Fox News • May 1, 2021
Figure 4.44: The major key for each key signature is shown as a capital letter; the minor key as a small letter.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
I thought the small letter at the start might mean that nothing ever really began all new, with a capital, but that it just flowed on from what came before.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
It was an unusually small letter, of course, and might have gone unnoticed in the letterbox.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
I even did the ‘d’ in a small letter.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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