Sentence examples for a puny thing from inspiring English sources

Even the formidable Cyclone is a puny thing from this height.

To get Democrats to vote, I could lay on a guilt trip and invoke our ancestors, from the colonists onward, and what they endured to ensure the vote, compared to which our present disgust is a puny thing.

This is the essential problem: Stacked against a six-figure contribution, a vote can seem an awfully puny thing, practically worthless.

Compared to the Somme offensive, terrorism is a puny matter.

"Why are the cattle on a common so puny and stunted?" Lloyd asked.

Farrell: "The strong, sustained, awesome roar … warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous".

He wrote about the 'strong, sustained, awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to The Almighty.' Harvard physicist Kenneth Bainbridge said, 'Now we're all sons of bitches.'.

The average American immune system is a puny, lily-livered thing compared to those of foreigners.

A puny mason jar?

The unemployment rate is a puny 3.8percentt.

There wasn't a puny, stringy dud in the lot.