Sentence examples for puny that from inspiring English sources

But the nuclear rebirth has been so puny that much of that money is still available.

She was so puny that the handyman thought she was gone and threw her into a garbage can.

Budgets were so puny that Sherwood Forest was played by just two trees, filmed from many different angles.

Yet even if the recovery can be sustained, many smaller insurers are so puny that they will either go bust or be taken over.

The mark was so tentative and so puny that even my cat wouldn't have deigned to claim the scratch as her own.

By night, she and her mother were hunched over their microscopic meals in an apartment so puny that Moore sometimes ate dinner perched on the edge of the bathtub.

Congress, meanwhile, has yet to pass a puny bill that is expected to create, at most, a few hundred thousand jobs this year.

salary increases have slowed down and bonuses have been puny, and that's been reflected all the way down the executive ranks," said Warren L. Batts, a management professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business who serves on the boards of companies including Allstate, Cooper Industries.

Paleontologists said Thursday that they had discovered what amounted to a miniature prototype of Tyrannosaurus rex, complete with the oversize head, powerful jaws, long legs — and, as every schoolchild knows, puny arms — that were hallmarks of the king of the dinosaurs.

The Google agreement makes deals like Microsoft's with Facebook last week look puny, though that deal is said to have required very little negotiation.

Those thin puny blinds that don't actually go up or down very elegantly because the string to pull them is too thin and they are mounted to the wall with sticky pads instead of actual nails or screws: an N16 special.