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Example sentences for: puny

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In the 1960s, a revisionist school of economic historians proved that limiting wheat exports would have made only a puny dent in the calamity.
After a period of adjustment, during which many long home runs will seem puny, we'll slowly reacclimate ourselves to reality.
The row of giant black rectangles dominating puny pedestrians walking below ( Wall Street , 1915) inspired numerous social interpretations, but to our eyes it might look like an anticipation of obdurate monoliths by artists from Ad Reinhardt to Richard Serra.
Decisive and perhaps radical action would be required, not the puny list of previously planned and budgeted activities that Shalala described in her press release: A demonstration program in Illinois, $23 million in prevention grants, $2.
Voters, she writes, "cry out for tax relief," and when tax breaks are given to them they "discover the puny size of the break" and "turn angry."