Sentence examples for puny but from inspiring English sources

India's foreign reserves are not puny, but are poor by Asian norms.

The demo sounded puny, but we thought we could knock it into shape.

The force that keeps our feet on the ground may not seem puny, but it certainly is.

Now, in the world of online publishing, $15 million per annum isn't exactly puny, but it isn't exactly gonzo, either.

Miss Lewinsky's book advance, $600,000, is thought rather puny, but then Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor, has already printed all the best bits.

Young chancer Leonardo DiCaprio's romance with pickpocket Cameron Diaz is puny, but Daniel Day-Lewis's leering gang chief, Bill the Butcher, is a full-on cinematic monster.

Because el-Kader was just over five feet tall, Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political thinker, who took a great interest in Algerian affairs, called him a "puny Arab"; but Tocqueville also called him "a Muslim Cromwell".

Not only is it a puny accomplishment, but it also comes at the expense of all the larger (and more important) problems you could have devoted yourself to.

Briefing.com, based in San Francisco and formed in 1995 by former Standard & Poor's executive Richard C. Green, expects to earn $760,000, a puny sum but a tidy 22% profit margin.

I don't want to sound like a puny soul, but I really was devastated.

O.K., one study, admittedly puny in scope, but it just came out.