[ US /ˈbæntəm/ ]
[ UK /bˈɑːntæm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. very small
    the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
    diminutive in stature
    her petite figure
    tiny feet
    a lilliputian chest of drawers
NOUN
  1. any of various small breeds of fowl
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How To Use bantam In A Sentence

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  • It appeared some part of him was compiling a case where the facts had to sway just one man, Rebus Bantam, his own harsh judge and unappeasable jury.
  • This shaves an impressive 4 oz of weight from the bantamweight pistol, which only tips the scales at 24 oz empty, with the mag.
  • The bantams have been giving me strange looks recently, and a small robin is trying to nest in our bedroom (totally ignored by the cat).
  • After the Games he turned pro and was later ranked eighth amongst the world's best bantamweights.
  • There is an abundance of native birds living alongside badgers, deer and the marauding foxes which cleared out the bantams of a previous tenant.
  • Out back were the Vietnamese pheasants and bantams that Kilroy-Silk breeds.
  • He dropped to flyweight in 1974 and four years later returned to bantamweight to win another gold medal.
  • The black family would let me come look at their particolored chickens—bantams, Dominickers—scratching around uncooped in their precisely raked dirt yard. Dream State
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