Sentence examples for a puny one from inspiring English sources
The SPR is a useful short-term weapon, but a puny one when set against a long-term crunch between supply and demand.Mr Obama's ambitious targets for the fuel economy of American cars show that he is intent on encouraging people to switch to less thirsty vehicles.
Japan's share of the global equity market has shrunk from over a third in 1990 to a puny one-tenth.
It's a puny one-eighth of 1% of NASA's budget.
In fact, it's a puny one-eighth of 1% of NASA's budget.
A suspected black hole in this galaxy's center is a relatively puny one, and the Sun and Earth are a safe distance away, at least 25,000 light-years.
This is quite likely—Unnes is a Sami name (it means "the puny one;" most Sami names are slightly insulting and mean stuff like "the cheapskate" or "the one with crooked legs").
Ms. LaManna, too, is convinced that the part she plays -- a bird who takes pills to make her puny one-feather tail more prominent so Horton the Elephant will notice her -- imparts a valuable lesson: "Accept yourself for who you are and try not to conform to other people, other ideas, what society says women should look like.
The direction, by Chuck Jones, visually contrasts massive, powerful forms with puny ones, as well.
"I didn't know before this presentation that the most luminous quasars, and hence the most massive black holes, were there at the beginning, while the little puny ones were created more recently.
It brings back that sense that Elite provided – that you're a lonely and vulnerable traveller, in a puny rust bucket only ever one dramatic incident away from destruction.
