Example sentences for: smallish

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

  • These are smallish, intense shows that aim, as curator Robert Storr writes in the Smith catalog, "to whet the appetite of the general public."

  • An early cluster of smallish water lily paintings, two on circular canvases, that Monet exhibited in Paris in 1909 are almost saccharine in their placid beauty, visual equivalents of some of Debussy's prettier preludes.

  • They had three sons and a smallish house.

  • This error is a perpetuation of Erasmus, who published his Adagia (1500) in which, inter alia, appears the Pandora story in which he mistakes πυξις ( pyxis ) a smallish boxwood box for πιθος, the largest wine storage container.

  • Most of the time these are smallish presentations, with dances performed by amateur groups; at their worst, they can be truly gaudy and almost laughable shows.


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