diminutive

How To Use diminutive In A Sentence

• Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3
• He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
• Most older Argentineans still use the diminutives Juanito for him and Evita for her.
• BRIQUETTE (diminutive of Fr. _brique_, brick), a form of fuel, known also as "patent fuel," consisting of small coal compressed into solid blocks by the aid of some binding material. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• They speak to each other in Tagalog, using exotic diminutives.
• The hosts could not cope with the diminutive striker on a boggy pitch. The Sun
• Despite its diminutive size, the car is quite comfortable.
• She noticed a diminutive figure standing at the entrance.
• Expecting to have to moderate their pace so as not to overstride their diminutive hosts, the travelers found themselves having to hurry to keep up, so swift were the Swick's feathered earthbound mounts. Carnivores of Light and Darkness
• The diminutive monkey in front of me puts a hard palm nut, the size of its fist, into one of the many small pits on the rock surface.