Sentence examples for rather tiny from inspiring English sources

The gears are rather tiny and are slick with lubricants.

"He was really a rather tiny man," Mr. Koch said in an interview Thursday, "but he always seemed to be a giant".

Even in his final volume, In the Clearing, so filled with the stubborn courage of old age, Frost portrays human security as a rather tiny and quite vulnerable opening in a thickly grown forest, a pinpoint of light against which the encroaching trees cast their very real threat of darkness.

The first stage rocket of one of its Falcon 9 launchers, having successfully lofted cargo to the International Space Station, managed to turn itself around, bleed off the enormous kinetic energy it had acquired while its main engines were burning, fly back down to Earth and land vertically – with balletic precision – on a rather tiny looking robotic barge floating somewhere in the Atlantic.

There are embroidered bed linens and towels and gold-plated faucets in the rather tiny but handsomely decorated marble bathroom; tapestries; beamed and painted ceilings; massive Watteau-esque paintings, which, like the rest of the suite, are beautifully lighted; a mini-bar; and a small kitchen.

However, the energy index is not suitable for the screw groups with rather tiny threads compared with the other specifications.

This restaurant is almost opposite the airport, or rather the tiny runway that makes up the airport.

The feelings of an offended ethnic minority, though (or rather a tiny minority within a minority) rank more highly.

Does articulating a thought in public freeze it in place somehow, making it not part of a thought process but rather a tiny little finished sculpture?

The ridges cut into the glass also proved to be too brittle and broke into large pieces, rather than tiny pellets.

Protecting a huge multiethnic, multireligious country like India is far more challenging than securing a rather homogeneous, tiny state like Israel.