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Example sentences for: puny

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After a period of adjustment, during which many long home runs will seem puny, we'll slowly reacclimate ourselves to reality.
It's a curiosity of our age that just as the press, unable to find ideological or philosophical concerns in public life, is obsessed instead with the puny private lives of the powerful, so also business, freed of the obligation to consider the public interest in its deal-making, gives play to the purely personal.
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.
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.
Chicago's $2 billion endowment is puny compared to the big Ivy League universities', and it has run a small deficit in some years.