Sentence examples for Very puny from inspiring English sources

I felt very puny as a human.

Nine witnesses accused the short, muscular minister — a "very puny man," in the estimation of Cotton Mather — of feats that would have taxed a giant.

The failure to apprehend Osama bin Laden or to crush the Qaeda terrorist network makes Mr. Bush's mighty words seem very puny in retrospect, which ultimately proves that it is not what you say but what you do that really counts.

But other astronomers claim the objects are very puny brown dwarfs, a type of failed star.

Then again, those are very puny backseats, more there to keep insurance costs down than to carry the average six-footer.

God also comes into play, since the first attempts that Louise and her team make are very much like puny men trying to make sense of the divine.

In both situations, the big state feels a sense of grievance over the very existence of its puny neighbour and resents outsiders that act as its self-appointed protectors.

It happened just after I turned 40, and I think if ever there's a period of life that changes you... I've been quoted saying that it's made me more aware of being alive, which sounds puny and not very rock'n'roll, but it's true.

The climactic scene features a battle between very large dinosaurs while the puny humans cower at the edge of the frame and, occasionally, in close-up.

The effect of Sept. 11 was to make many of our old concerns look puny, and there are very few Americans who have not made resolutions, changed priorities or otherwise refocused their lives since the terrorist attacks.

That tiny knife puts me in mind, very much, of the rockets of Hamas – puny weapons used symbolically, rebuke and provocation both.