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.

  • After a period of adjustment, during which many long home runs will seem puny, we'll slowly reacclimate ourselves to reality.

  • Chicago's $2 billion endowment is puny compared to the big Ivy League universities', and it has run a small deficit in some years.

  • The size of deals were puny compared with what would later come.

  • 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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