"small" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

small adjetivo

small + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 2403
small town • small group • small number • small business • small amount • small village • small size • small piece • small island • ...
verbo + small
Kolokacji: 20
grow smaller • look small • feel small • make small • start small • become smaller • ...
adverbio + small
Kolokacji: 71
relatively small • comparatively small • fairly small • considerably smaller • slightly smaller • extremely small • somewhat smaller • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 18
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(5) significantly, mainly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) generally, arbitrarily
Kolokacji: 2
(8) surprisingly, amazingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) forward, forwards
Kolokacji: 2
(11) pitifully, pathetically
Kolokacji: 2
(12) progressively, increasingly
Kolokacji: 2
(13) incredibly, impossibly
Kolokacji: 2
1. awfully small = strasznie mały awfully small
2. embarrassingly small = w sposób żenujący mały embarrassingly small
  • Patricia brings another vinho verde and an embarrassingly small bill.
  • The foreign aid accounts of the United States Government, while they receive much attention, are embarrassingly small.
  • After a tumultuous summer, the team had drawn embarrassingly small crowds early in the season.
  • Energy contributed by wind power "embarrassingly small"
  • If they really did, I take back everything I said about them having taken advantage of the system in embarrassingly small ways.
  • Considering that it was for a wealthy and influential man, the funeral procession was embarrassingly small.
  • Mr. Hines's audience was embarrassingly small, enthusiastic though it was.
  • The presence of women in our group raised eyebrows but we were treated with politeness and the bill was embarrassingly small.
  • The commission spent $300,000 this fall on voter education to try to keep the vote on the proposals from being embarrassingly small.
  • Azaria notes that he spends "an embarrassingly small amount of time working on The Simpsons".
3. woefully small = żałośnie mały woefully small
(16) equally, comparably, similarly
Kolokacji: 3
(18) negligibly
Kolokacji: 1
small + preposición
Kolokacji: 18
small for • small in • small by • small to • small of • ...

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