Example sentences for: minuscule

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

  • I am a child of the '20s, a time when those who were involved in what was then (I believe) a minuscule drug problem in the US were called dope fiends.

  • Buchanan can't reconcile his lifelong anti-communism with the anti-interventionist philosophy that supposedly unites his book, so when it comes to the Cold War he carves out an absurd exception: The extreme evil of communism, he says, warranted military action in places as far-flung as Vietnam or as minuscule as Nicaragua.

  • But thanks to advances in mining and petroleum technology, other areas of the state can be safely developed, leaving only a minuscule "footprint" on the environment.

  • Along with that came news that unit labor costs leapt 3.8 percent in the second quarter, after a minuscule 0.8 percent increase in the first.

  • The resistance literature often comments on Hitler's "amazing luck," or his "uncanny" ability to sense danger; but the failures of the resistance might be better ascribed to the calculated unluck of the resisters, their own ability to sense danger and step away from it, and their overall minuscule number.


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