Sentence examples for at puny from inspiring English sources

Jolly nice, too – and that phrase "modern contemporary fashion" could be recycled to describe the madness of those banks who offered those covenant light loans to the private equity industry at puny interest rates.

A few stars have both, the blast of star power and the quieter lure of intimacy, but Lancaster was like those Olympians who bestrode the earth and laughed at puny mortals, whose gestures were larger, whose words were weightier and whose diction was more precise than anybody else's.

Federal law caps a spiller's liabilities at $75m, puny given the scale of the disaster.

(Mr. Almestica later estimated its height at a puny three feet).

Islamist factions that have thrown in their lot with the regime balk at the puny representation being offered.

Their efforts are beginning to generate a buzz.Most of the world's (at present puny) tidal power comes from barrages across estuaries.

In one of the illustrations we see Cinders looking sadly at his puny muscles while comparing himself with a big, buff bodybuilder in a magazine.

The players began to waste time and perpetrate petty fouls that aborted Scotland's momentum at the puny cost of free-kicks far from danger.

The show opens with him surrounded by lookalike puppets, an experience he says was "rather like being God staring down at his puny creations".

The following morning, I found Sestra in the living room, staring with vague fascination at a puny man in a T-shirt with an image of an angel pierced by an arrow in midair.

And given its left-leaning heritage, populist politics and poverty, India will probably struggle to lower spending relative to GDP.That makes raising more revenue, which stands at a puny 18% of GDP, an important goal.