Sentence examples for puny from inspiring English sources
The word 'puny' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to describe something (usually a person or object) that is small or weak in comparison to its expected size or strength. For example, you could say, "The puny sailboat was no match for the powerful waves of the ocean.".
Considering how much of Sony's future is riding on the Dash's puny shoulders, "tragically" might be more apropos.
Random Access Memories is a colossal piece of work, but not in an overbearing "tremble at our genius, puny earthlings" way.
At 132m, Côte de Wincobank, on Jenkin Road near Meadowhall, north of the city centre, boasts puny altitude when compared with Tour classics like the Col du Galibier in the Alps (2,645m).
Sadly, the government's proposed investments in greener technology are puny, and the 100,000 jobs promised recently are nowhere near enough.
Such a puny fiscal tightening leaves the budget in deficit in that time, and the bottom line is worse than the budget numbers left by the previous government in the pre-election fiscal outlook.
In Italy and Spain the ratio is one in five; and in Greece it is more than one in four.Compared with the scale of the problem, the funds on offer are puny.
On April 13th IBM announced plans to use a version of its Watson computer which crushed two puny human champions at an obscurantist American quiz show called Jeopardy! in 2011 to analyse health records, looking for medical insights.Deep thoughtResearch into artificial intelligence is as old as computers themselves.
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