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smallish

[ US /ˈsmɔɫɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /smˈɔːlɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. rather small

How To Use smallish In A Sentence

  • Using a melon baller or a spoon, scoop out the flesh in smallish pieces.
  • They normally do experimental concerts to smallish audiences in jazz clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • I keep a jotter on my desk to make a note of ideas for blog posts, but so many smallish things have occurred lately that I haven't kept up. Archive 2009-02-01
  • The first Magdalen asylums of the 1800s were smallish ventures offering prostitutes, expectant or post-pregnancy single mothers, and ‘compromised’ girls the option of temporary refuge and moral ‘rehabilitation.’
  • The bird life was so rich and varied there seemed no end to new kinds, and they lived not in ones and twos but in thousands upon thousands: tiny green-and-yellow parakeets Fee used to call lovebirds, but which the locals called budgerigars; scarlet-and-blue smallish parrots called rosellas; big pale-grey parrots with brilliant purplish-pink breasts, underwings and heads, called galahs; and the great pure white birds with cheeky yellow combs called sulphur-crested cockatoos. The Thorn Birds
  • It is just a simple, smallish room with white tiles. The Sun
  • This smallish grid of brick byways features pale Easteregg-colored houses old as anything in town.
  • The racer utilized a strong but smallish airframe mated to a Pratt & Whitney radial and variable-position three-blade prop.
  • Ten thousand dollars is well within the budget of a smallish software development company.
  • You probably can't tell from the smallish picture, but the cover is a cross stitch pattern (detail here).
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