Sentence examples for puny compared to from inspiring English sources

Though Fonville won the 1950 Drake relays, his winning throw of 52 feet was described as "comparatively puny" compared to the 58 feet throws of Jim Fuchs that year.

Yet it remains puny compared to AIPAC.

"Moral speculation," he writes, "was puny compared to moral action".

The eventual fines are puny compared to the size of the oversights and fees collected by auditors.

Books by crooks: today's protests over political books are puny compared to the furor surrounding Nixon's memoirs.

Yet it is puny compared to the most powerful particle accelerator of them all: the universe itself.

Optimus sure looked like a puny 'bot compared to that monstrosity.

For all the fury over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion emergency economic relief fund, it seems downright puny when compared to the running total of the government's response to the credit crisis.

This kitten is puny, especially compared to that big stone lion.

And Mars has released only two albums, a puny songbook compared to the deep troves of Bruce Springsteen and the Who.

More important, Obama made the case Friday night that earmarks amount to $18 billion a year, less than two months of the Iraq war, and a puny amount compared to the total budget, let alone the $700 billion figure tossed around as the cost of this week's bailout.