Sentence examples for were puny from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
By international hijacking standards, their weapons were puny indeed: just four handguns, five knives, two detonators, a knuckle-duster and two grenades with their fuses missing.
The trees, I could see, were puny — slender gray-green things, planted in ruler-straight rows, half-vanishing as they receded in the brownish smog.
By this reckoning, the UK would do better to invest in the expensive "backstop" option of carbon disposal rather than incremental reductions in emissions rates, which were puny compared with the growth in emissions from rapidly developing nations.
In doing so, he had ushered in a new era of the sport, the era of the freak, in which even men like Arnold Schwarzenegger were puny by comparison.
Three other settlements closer to Israel proper, including two that were puny ultra-orthodox villages when Ariel boomed, have swelled to twice its size.For mediators committed to reviving the wobbly peace process, this paralysis is a rare piece of good news.
The reason was less Spain's own military efforts, which were puny compared with those of the first half of the century, than the unwillingness of other European powers, especially the United Provinces, to see the Spanish dominions in Europe swallowed up by France.
Digital sales are puny, too.
First, the selection is puny.
Those fences erected are puny.
