Example sentences for: dwarves

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

  • Like Saul Steinberg's famous map of the United States from the New Yorker's point of view, these maps relegate the rest of the world to the truncated periphery, with such speculative identifications as the "Land of Dwarves" and the "Land of Women."

  • The 700-year-old Wieliczka Salt Mine (near Kraków) — where you first descend 378 steps, then traipse through long corridors and see chapels and figures (including the Seven Dwarves) entirely carved out of salt, and finally zoom up to ground level via a fast and slightly shaky bare-bones elevator — is sure to be cool for kids.

  • The notochord is an embryonic structure that forms the primitive axial skeleton of the developing embryo, and because mutations affecting notochord development result in shortened embryos, seven of the affected genes have been named after the dwarves in Snow White—zebrafish, like some other developmental models, have many imaginatively named mutants.

  • If, as I recall, the candidates running in the Democratic primary in '92 were known as the "seven dwarves," what index of Lilliputianism is appropriate for Keyes, Bauer, Forbes, and Hatch?

  • The response I've gotten from TV vastly dwarves any feedback I've received from my writing.


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