Though bridge labels often carry a designer's name, these designers are considered to be of lesser stature.

An open gaze like that, at least from a man of lesser stature, would have annoyed me.

American prospects are diminished because many top-ranked players are paired, for professional reasons, with partners of lesser stature.

The largest deciduous tree is white birch; species of lesser stature include alder, cherry and mountain ash.

No one of lesser stature would stand a chance.

The question might not come up if the architect were of lesser stature than Kevin Roche.

As a curtain-raiser, a Pro-Am event will permit players of lesser stature to play with and against the stars.

Also, my lesser stature enables me for work in places where other Giants lack space.

A player of lesser stature would already have been given a seat in the dugout.

He would see no one of lesser stature, and it was far more advantageous to see them all together rather than individually.