Sentence examples for lilliputian from inspiring English sources

The word "lilliputian" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone or something that is very small in size. Example sentence: The lilliputian toy soldiers were placed in a row on the shelf.

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lilliputian

adjective

Very small, diminutive

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Indeed, the block was formed in 1967 partly to tie Indonesia down in a Lilliputian web of regional commitments.

In it the author poured scorn on Europe, an annoyingly fractured continent with its "dopey little countries", "pokey borders", "itty-bitty" languages and "Lilliputian" drinks measures.

But despite the resurgence of niche sodas, America's top three soda companies Coca-Cola, Pepsi-companies Coca-ColaSeven Up (owned by Britain's Cadbury Schweppes)—still control 89% of the mandet, leaving the upstarts to carve out lilliputian slices of what's left.

The effect of these little paintings together is like a lilliputian battalion sweeping into the modest space.

That suits the Transdniestrians, who have been building their own Lilliputian Soviet-style state on the proceeds of contraband, notably petrol and guns.Yet Moldova remains surprisingly orderly.

Economy class Beach Rotana Hotel & Towers in the Tourist Club area of the city feels positively Lilliputian after the Emirates Palace but it's a good example of Abu Dhabi executive-chic, has an attractive beachside location and serves a fabulous fish biryani (+971 2 644 3000; www.beachrotana.com; doubles from dh767 per night plus taxes).

After the first 20 minutes – with George North steaming around the park like a be-jerseyed missile, making all around him look positively Lilliputian – I just wanted to see how these new kids on the English block would react.

They saw visions: Lilliputian baseball players competing on a tabletop diamond; animals or people or objects that materialized and vanished.

The polls show Putin running (with little evident exertion) between seventy and eighty per cent; none of his Lilliputian competitors have cracked five.

Fanatical about the details of the miniaturized worlds — a whole industry flourishes to supply Lilliputian furniture and appliances — the colonists take a powerful, illegal hallucinogen called Can-D, which lets them "translate" the bodies and lives of Pat and Walt: for a brief, intoxicated moment they are Pat, or Walt, living in sixties-style San Francisco, and happy.

AMATO OPERA: "LA FORZA DEL DESTINO" New York's semi-amateur shoebox opera house puts on a Lilliputian production of Verdi's most unwieldy opera, with all the charm and gusto of an Italian hill-town troupe.

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