Sentence examples for a rather puny from inspiring English sources

Again, it's a whole new feeling of scale and immersion – you get a sense of yourself as a rather puny physical presence in the world rather than a demigod-like figure.

And you should never doubt the powers of reinvention of a once rather puny Austrian.

It's a wise idea to level up the Pokémon just a little; level one Pokémon are rather puny.

But the line turns out to be rather puny — as if drawn with a hard-leaded pencil when a large-tipped felt marker would better serve readers.

A national unit within the NCA will henceforth deal with cybercrime, particularly the big, complicated cases.Still, the new agency is a peculiar creature, both far-reaching and rather puny.

Miss Lewinsky's book advance, $600,000, is thought rather puny, but then Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor, has already printed all the best bits.

(Mr Freston's reported $60m pay-off looks rather puny in comparison).In this section Would you fly in chattering class?

One day the writer came home to find the parrot looking rather puny & learned that it had suddenly flown at his mother's shoulder while she was cooking & she had knocked it out with the spoon in her hand.

Set against this package, Punjab's efforts to conserve its groundwater, mainly by telling farmers not to transplant paddy before the monsoon rains, are rather puny.State governments know that this is madness.

The romance of radio waves, magnetic recording tape and gramophones is strong, and the digital age seems rather puny and unexciting when set alongside these progressive, physical, scientific advances.

They are accepting yields that are rather puny under the circumstances.