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Example sentences for: diminutive

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Nor were insects ignored: the habitually irritating were either Zampaglione (the Calabrian word for mosquito), or Mosca (fly), Moscone (blue-bottle fly), or some variant (including Mussolini , which, as we have seen, could be a diminutive of Giacomo ).
Finally, a group of odds `n' sods: nickel (the devil's metal), from modern German Kupfernickel copper demon: Nickel is a diminutive of Nicklaus , similar to the English Old Nick, a term for the Devil, so called because nickel was considered a contaminant when found in copper ore but in the early days of mining--as if the metal were spooked.
Stanley Crouch (who gleefully refers to Lee as "the diminutive director") has pointed out that Lee resembles the hero of Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels , a lightweight who strives to make an unwieldy epic called O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A lot of these ancient nicknames had cute diminutive suffixes.
Madeira seems much larger than its diminutive size, just 57 km (35 miles) long and 22 km (13 miles) wide.