Sentence examples for often puny from inspiring English sources

Here the middle class is often puny or distorted.

Her puny size often placed her at a disadvantage.

Like all bookish, puny men I often spend whole hours pretending to be a boxer in my head, and a bullet-proof soundtrack is essential to this.

For while corporate Japan spent the past few years restructuring, a global M&A binge created multinational giants in many industries, often leaving Japanese firms looking puny by comparison.

But they're much bigger than puny human efforts.

It should be noted, however, that this happens to shows with puny ratings about as often as cement shoes prove to be flotation devices.

What's more, their benefits are not only puny but we taxpayers often subsidize them.

Labour is puny across much of southern England.

The 185 Pontiac counselors, most of them former campers, needed little explanation of how children tease and taunt each other, the boys more often in physical ways, like tripping a punier bunkmate as he makes his way awkwardly around the base paths; the girls by exclusion from the "in" group or through insidious gossip.

Foreigners are now financing consumption and government borrowing.America's current-account deficit largely reflects puny domestic saving, so dollar bulls often argue that a fall in the dollar is neither necessary nor sufficient to trim the deficit.

He rebounded well, but was a puny 12 for 30 from the floor, often resorting to timid putbacks and rushed tap-ins.