Sentence examples for small and puny from inspiring English sources

"Those who have reduced Hajj to a religious-tourist trip and have hidden their enmity and malevolence towards the faithful and revolutionary people of Iran under the name of 'politicising hajj', are themselves small and puny satans who tremble for fear of jeopardising the interests of the Great Satan, the US," he said in the statement.

He added: "Those who have reduced Hajj to a religious tourist trip and have hidden their enmity and malevolence towards the faithful and revolutionary people of Iran under the name of 'politicising hajj', are themselves small and puny satans who tremble for fear of jeopardising the interests of the great satan, the US".

But just by breathing Scottish air, she was, apparently, stealing something that wasn't hers, playing her own small part in a process of pillage that had been going on for centuries, making England rich and powerful while Scotland stayed small and puny.

The danger is that the gap between the tough rhetoric and puny small print makes the Tories look incoherent and amateurish.Just as damaging are the few frank proposals that have slipped out.

Russia's trade with Latin America is small: a puny $185m with Cuba, $1.5bn with Argentina.

"The Daily Mail describes me as short, pale and puny.

Most of these are homely, with skinny roots and spindly leaves and puny flowers.

They refuse to flower, and new leaves are pale and puny compared with summer growth.

This is a show that transcends the musical's usual romantic angst and puny psychology.

And puny humans die real easily.

If parents ignored the laws of 'Nature', they would continue 'bringing into the world feeble and puny children, born but to suffer and die'.