Example sentences for: little

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

  • In Britain, the Times reported on its front page how a little boy in Yorkshire had been struck across the face by a department-store Santa Claus after questioning his legitimacy, claiming to have seen another Santa Claus in another department store only a short time beforehand.

  • While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.

  • On the day before he died he phoned his family doctor in Little Rock, Ark.

  • Just as badly worn coins convey little information to the numismatist, their once-clear markings having faded with countless transactions, so some words convey little information because their meanings have been obscured by repeated and varied usage.

  • On the plus side, it's ravishingly well directed by Antonia Bird ( Priest , 1995), who reportedly came on board two weeks after shooting had commenced and as such had little say about the thrust of the script.


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