Sentence examples for runt by from inspiring English sources

And Germany's venture-capital market is a runt by world standards (see chart).

He spent a lot of time with another man who hung around Soho with a camera – John Deacon, considered "a right little runt" by Bacon.

EAT THE RUNT By Avery Crozier; directed by Peter Hawkins; produced by Matthew von Waaden; sets, Jerome Martin; costumes, Courtney McClain; original music and design, Will Pitts; lighting, Michele Disco.

That's because the giant is, in the land of the giants, a runt, called Runt by the nine bigger giants, foolish predators who bully him and who eat only "beans" (i.e., beings), of which Sophie would be a prime morsel.

"Sheehan is not exactly the unprepossessing runt suggested by the text," he says.

Lucien (Christian Conn) was the timorous shy boy and Anthony Blake DeLongg) the fearless runt, struck by lightning at the age of 6.

Scott knows from the brochure to expect to lose a few of these, but there's no apparent runt, and by the evening of the next day it's clear that the whole litter will survive.

In "Runt," written by Daniel Pennac, whose name adorns the majestic little ocean liner that cruises past the beach at St . Tropezin one of the show's many inventive scenes, these companies and artists have concocted a richly rewarding show that embraces life from its buoyant heights to its psychological depths.

But Runt is rescued by a pack of scruffy dogs in a dump and suckled by a motherly dachshund who is promptly killed when a garbage truck drops a refrigerator on her.

Niall Griffiths' latest novel, Runt, is published by Jonathan Cape.

"Rex the Runt" was created by Aardman for the BBC, which broadcast it for a few years in the 1990's.