"size" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The pale captives who creep blinking into the light go back ultimately to the host of cats, reduced by the breaking of Tevildo's spell to puny size, who came forth from the castle in the Tale (II.
- What look like mistakes or anomalies are now conspicuous by contrast with the increasingly hard, polished surface: the odd, winglike shadow cast by Ms. Alvarez's shoulder, the way her elbow rests awkwardly on the steering wheel, the puny size of Mr. Matte's right leg.
- The lions of later generations were half the size, puny by comparison; the cave lion was the largest feline that ever lived.
- No pizza slices in this survey came even close to that puny size.
- Having repeated himself at length on his displeasure with her shameless venture for the Weyr that had resulted in such an insufferable message from M'tani, he ranted on through his usual grievances, about his illness, about the puny size of the clutch.
- Heavy cuirassiers, in their arms and armor, although the term was mocked by the puny size of their horses.
- How I fit into a 6, the size of wraithlike supermodels and desiccated society waifs who eat grapes for lunch, or a positively puny size 4, is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in, well, a size 4 wrap dress.
- As it saw the puny size of the Skylark it opened its cavernous mouth and rushed to attack.
- Voters, she writes, "cry out for tax relief," and when tax breaks are given to them they "discover the puny size of the break" and "turn angry."
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