Sentence examples for puny example from inspiring English sources

On my desk was a small Bakelite pencil sharpener, depicting the fair's symbols, the Trylon and Perisphere, in a smoky orange plastic, and though I honored it, I knew it was but a puny example of the T. and P. wonders that survived the fair.

The hope is that industry is lean rather than merely puny.Another example of exporting prowess is TDSi, a small Dorset firm that designs access-control systems for offices, airports and rail networks.

All the other mountain ranges in the same sort of location (in New Zealand or Alaska, for example) are puny by comparison.

Yet examples are puny.

The 49% question is a minor aspect, but since Shirley Williams focused on it, let's examine it as a good example of the puny concessions made.

The Communist Party does not want an angry middle class.These political sensitivities are apparent even in the pioneering cities. Chongqing, for example, charges a puny rate (0.5-1.2%) on a tiny number of properties barely 8,500, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.

Illustration: Puny Karen Finley in "The Jackie Look".

For example, he claimed the puny 50 per cent top rate of tax would drive 9,000 City workers to Switzerland: in fact, the rate of workers leaving has fallen by 9 per cent.

"Do you favour Britain leaving the EU to become a proud, sovereign state again instead of a puny province of Europe run by crooks and toadies?" would be one example of the genre.

(Do we really think that Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and Buddha, examples of the most accomplished human beings of all times, need our puny defenses?).

In Japan, for example, just 24% of television-owning households pay for more channels, and ad revenue is puny.