smallish
rather small.
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How to use smallish in a sentence
Top marathoners tend to be smallish because it improves their efficiency, may limit injuries, and enhances thermoregulation.
On a smallish stage, the equation of Springsteen plus a guitar and a piano equals a secret whisper, proof that rock’n’roll, proudly the noisiest of genres, is in reality a code that needs no overamplification.
The Reopening of Springsteen on Broadway Brought Broadway Out of Hibernation—and One Packed Theater Into a Brighter Future | Stephanie Zacharek | June 28, 2021 | TimeThey hadn’t secured the proper clearances and the publicist had overhyped the smallish to-do as way more than it was.
Michael Musto Gets His Groove Back, as New York City Clubland Returns | Michael Musto | June 17, 2021 | The Daily BeastTheir lives had crossed through their political work and, because Waterloo is still a smallish town, their relatives had shared a room in the same nursing home.
As COVID-19 Ravaged This Iowa City, Officials Discovered Meatpacking Executives Were the Ones in Charge | by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung | December 21, 2020 | ProPublicaAt that time, I was writing to a smallish community of about 3,000 readers.
What the markets want for Christmas: for starters, a trillion in stimulus spending | Bernhard Warner | December 18, 2020 | Fortune
He owns a smallish vaporizer that still looks like it came from the future, and buys wax instead of bud.
Step 11: Return to your living room, and fall asleep as a low-budget cop drama plays on a smallish computer monitor.
How to Celebrate 4/20 Without Actually Smoking Weed | Kelly Williams Brown | April 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome smallish number does that now, but I daresay there are more Bettes and Boonstras.
It is comparable, perhaps, to climbing a smallish mountain before and after your day's work.
The plan will include tax cuts, business tax benefits, and a smallish public-works component.
Originally it had been two smallish houses: the two front doors still remained side by side, but only one was used.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHe was a smallish man, well rounded, pleasant-faced, and inordinately proud of his name.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettHe was a smallish, springy, firm-faced man, devotee of the lady bearing his name and wielding him.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George MeredithHe put his hand into another capacious pocket, and drew forth a smallish, glass box.
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light | Mary E. HanshewThere was another bear in Labrador—a smallish, rusty-coated, broad-headed, crafty cousin of the ordinary American black bear.
Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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