Sentence examples for puny for from inspiring English sources

But in Texas, the supermarket-style cube steak is considered too puny for the job.

Big spending cuts included a 25% reduction in public-sector wages, which are high for a few, puny for most.

Both stood at 6-foot-1 and weighed 190 pounds — puny for a current heavyweight, but impressive in that day.

Like the early Apple II of Mr. Jobs, it is too puny for many tasks, including sequencing the entire genome of a person.

Brünnhilde still rides a hobby horse to join Siegfried on a makeshift funeral pyre that would be too puny for a high school pep rally.

In this context the royal we is of course, preposterous, both too big for such a small desire and terribly puny for the centuries of royal prerogative that Eric evokes when he uses it.

Unfortunately, the median retirement account balance is a puny $3,000 for all working-age households and $12,000 for near-retirement households.

Action-oriented ads are typically delivered by automated advertising brokerages, aren't customized for the Web site on which they appear and generate puny revenues for publishers.

We've been punished by our puny pound for too long – the euro and dollar are making it increasingly expensive for us to travel.

Those are puny statistics for an immense talent.

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