Sentence examples for Be puny from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
"They will be puny and scrofulous – a torment to themselves and to those who have the charge of them".
It is not a stretch to say that in France the proportion of sexual assaults involving random north African street gangs would be puny.
Ministers acknowledge that although the assemblies will be a bit more powerful than the Greater London Assembly, they would be puny compared with the Scottish and Welsh bodies.The London comparison may persuade regional voters it is better to have something than nothing at all.
The broader point is to frame abortion as a consequence of women's oppression: "Women who are in the last stages of consumption, who know that their offspring must be puny, suffering, neglected orphans, are still compelled to submit to maternity, and dying in childbirth, are their husbands ever condemned?
And that means their gravitational fields will be puny.
If we didn't play well with others, our brains would be puny.
Digital sales are puny, too.
First, the selection is puny.
Those fences erected are puny.
