Sentence examples for but a tiny grain from inspiring English sources

He insists that he will work only for winners, but a tiny grain of idealism remains deep in his heart, along with a sense of shame.

"I realize that in this situation I may be but a tiny grain of sand," Drake said during the press conference.

Trump's claim here has a tiny grain of truth, but is clearly a gross overstatement of the facts designed to engender his elaborately constructed image as a savior of U.S. jobs.

Trump's claim here has a tiny grain of truth, but is clearly a gross overstatement of the facts designed to engender his elaborately constructed image as a savior of U.S. jobs.

Experts are probably right to sound the alarm on the amount of time that children spend with digital devices, but the good-humored Mr. Garner may safely take their warnings with a tiny grain of salt.

And yes, that premise probably contains a tiny grain of truth.

Understanding the past also has the benefit of making you feel different: more open, more like a tiny grain of sand on an enormous beach of time.

A colleague, Vincent J. Schaefer, discovered that a tiny grain of dry ice produced many millions of ice crystals when dropped into a cloud of water droplets below the freezing point.

Final net worths were calculated using a tiny grain of common sense and a large dose of salt.

Attached to the mass spectrometer, a laser melted a tiny grain of hibonite crystal from a meteorite, releasing the helium and neon trapped inside so they could be detected.

A snowflake starts as a tiny grain of dust or pollen floating in a cloud.