Use of puny in Sentences. 29 Examples
The examples include puny at the start of sentence, puny at the end of sentence and puny in the middle of sentence
puny at the start of sentence
- Puny blushed, and lowered her eyes.
- Puny started slicing the peeled apples.
- Puny appeared thoughtful, or was it his imagination?
- Puny had left baked chicken, and green beans cooked with new potatoes, one of his favorite meals.
- Puny would spend Thursday baking bread and a cake, and he would roast a tenderloin and do the potatoes.
puny at the end of sentence
- Dooley asks after you, as do Emma and puny.
puny in the middle of sentence
- What a puny little creature!
- They laughed at my puny efforts.
- The lamb was a puny little thing.
- Our efforts look puny beside Fred's.
- Volker's puny body shook with anger.
- My car only has a puny little engine.
- It is Mr Ekdahl and his puny divorce settlement.
- She was awarded a puny ￡1,000 in compensation.
- They laughed at my puny efforts at rock-climbing.
- Oh, how puny my contemporaries seem by comparison!
- Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
- So, Cyclops, you were not quite strong enough to eat all of the puny men?
- Persuasive in its action moments but puny in terms of character and dialogue.
- Jabbing me back, exactly as the infant Cymbeline once did with her puny fists!
- Change was a mass movement; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual.
- Can you still get your divorce on such puny, immediately regretted unfaithfulness?
- The party's share of the vote rose from a puny 11% in the last election to 21% this time.
- When he got home, he went to the kitchen looking for puny and saw instead an unusual sight in his backyard.
- The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked.
- And they had to take four semesters of hygiene, or gym-perhaps to counter their waxy pallor and puny stature.
- I was nicknamed Pune, an inverted pun on puny, a physical status I retained, nomatterhow many press-ups I did.
- In many careers, starting salaries are puny but rice precipitously once people get five to 10 years' experience.
- We did not meet again for ten years , by then , the rather puny boy had grown into a six - foot man, weighing 200 pounds ...
Sentence Examples for Similar Words:
- insignificant
- , paltry
- , minor
- , tiny
- , frail
- , stunted
- , small
- , trifling
- , scrawny
- , undersized
- , weak
