Example sentences for: dwarfed

How can you use “dwarfed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The director, Sam Miller, goes in for Lewis Hine-like images of men high in the air, at once dwarfed and exalted, with synthesized strings to provide a touch of foggy mysticism.

  • Or, to use another simile, they are like shrubs transplanted to an alien climate: sometimes the shrub loses its spreading habit or becomes dwarfed; sometimes it expands luxuriantly, taking up more space than when on native ground; occasionally, it keeps its original shape and size.

  • If reporting the figure in a final report, it would probably be appropriate to report 313,000 rather than the six figures, but this uncertainty is dwarfed by that of the numerator (on the order of 1 part in 100 or even 1 in 1000, compared to 1 in 10 for the numerator), and so can be ignored in the calculation.

  • In choosing to adapt and direct The Winslow Boy , based on one of Rattigan's most tidily crafted problem pieces, Mamet points up an aspect of his own work that has increasingly dwarfed all others: the drama as a procession of archly formal negotiations.

  • Her well-crafted remarks also seemed ultimately dwarfed by the setting and by the event she herself had caused to happen.


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