Example sentences for: puny

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

  • This compares to the puny installation requirement of 5 megs to 10 megs of hard-disk space for a similar array of DOS applications, circa 1988: WordPerfect, Lotus 123, dBase, Crosstalk, etc.

  • The choice went to Bytown, a puny lumber depot renamed Ottawa after the river on which it stood, diplomatically situated between Upper and Lower Canada.

  • 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."

  • In the 1960s, a revisionist school of economic historians proved that limiting wheat exports would have made only a puny dent in the calamity.

  • Lewis can't really be proposing to suppress the "60 Minutes" Willey interview--which was, in truth, not a story based on "gossip" or "innuendo" but first-person testimony about the behavior of the president in the Oval Office, about which the voters are surely entitled to form an opinion--in order to protect a puny civil suit for money damages?


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