Sentence examples for smallest against from inspiring English sources

Fig. 3 Log-log plot of plate number (largest to smallest) against characteristic plate length (square root of area, in km).

She leads all comers in general election polls, but her lead is smaller against those two (smallest against Christie) than the others.

Nocturnal fish have a more circular pupil than diurnal fish, as the plot of the smallest against the largest pupil diameter shows.

The ship was growing smaller against the horizon.

It's OK to feel small against this enormous male character.

The same polls also show Capriles as the only opposition leader who stands a chance — however small — against Maduro.

His features appeared impossibly small against the grown man's hand as he dressed and wrapped the body in netting.

Most great dancing exists in contrasts — small against large, fast against slow, stillness against motion — and for Ms. Molina such contrasts seem her daily bread.

Sigrid and I looked on as Walcott made his way down to the Caribbean Sea, getting smaller and smaller against the big, watching water.

Her work has an instinct for the contrasts that make dance count: stillness against motion, small against large, slow against fast, the individual against the group, one group against another, upright beside supine.

Eventually he reclaimed it and set off paddling for the horizon, looking very, very small against the pitching vastness of the Pacific.