Smalls
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Booker recounts how Robert Smalls ingeniously snuck a boat with both fellow slaves and arms past a Confederate blockade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
DiBergi finds Tufnel working as a cheesemonger in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Smalls as the proprietor of London glue museum and St Hubbins living in Los Angeles making answering machine jingles.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
They’re happier reminiscing about the band’s early days, when childhood chums St. Hubbins and Tufnel first formed as the Thamesmen, later bringing on Smalls.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
Early in his career, he helped launch the careers of Mary J Blige and Christopher Wallace - aka Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025
“I be Arrabelle Smalls. I be married to Moultrie Smalls till he drown when his shrimp boat break up in a storm off St. Catherine’s Island three year ago.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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