Sentence examples for puny status from inspiring English sources

Sometimes you're just minding your own business, basking in the ocean or trying to take a really good photo for Instagram or whatever, and then some hungry beast from the great depths reminds you that your puny status as a social media influencer doesn't mean much against a shark's razor-sharp teeth.

When chief executives are routinely paid tens of millions of dollars a year and a hedge fund manager can collect $1 billion annually, those with a few million dollars often see their accumulated wealth as puny, a reflection of their modest status in the new Gilded Age, when hundreds of thousands of people have accumulated much vaster fortunes.

Africans think burgers puny.

How puny they are.

A puny mason jar?

These draw puny ratings.

Never mind puny terabytes.

Yet examples are puny.

Digital sales are puny, too.

Besides them, Murdoch looks puny.

"It's getting puny already.