Sentence examples for a very puny from inspiring English sources

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.

I felt very puny as a human.

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

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.

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

"What kind of puny turnover is that?" "A very tasty one!" I said, letting off a classic Ho, Ho, Ho, which shut him up.

"My feeling is, he's a very rare talent," Ms. Wilson said, pointing out that it's difficult for a designer to come back to his own puny label after freelancing at a luxury brand.

I think God thinks it's wonderful that we puny creatures are going about the business of trying to understand how our instruction book works, because it's a very elegant instruction book indeed" (Gosselin 2000).

"In comparison, neutron stars seemed to make relatively puny jets, which only became bright enough to see when the neutron stars were gobbling gas from their companions at a very high rate". .

Their starting salary is a puny $31,305 a year.

A PUNY bar wedged beneath a sleek hotel, accessed through a garbage-strewn loading dock, doesn't sound overly compelling.