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Example sentences for "little man"

  • But mind you don't post yourself into the box, little man, he said.

  • As decent a little man as ever wore a hat, Mr Dedalus said.

  • Like a little man in a cloak he is with tiny hands.

  • I well remember mamma's clasping her hands, and exclaiming "This will end in a little man!

  • Mamma would appear to have had an indefinable foreboding of what afterwards happened, for she would frequently urge upon me, "Not a little man.

  • No, my little man, I couldn't take you home.

  • But I am sure he would, little man," said the outlaw.

  • But you did not come here into the forest in shirt and hose, did you, my little man?

  • A little man, with chin- whiskers like a paintbrush, sat inside, shucking clams by the light of a lantern.

  • I did not like being called "my little man," and I tried to drop his clammy hand.

  • What are you going to do with that, my little man?

  • I had seen a large iron gateway with a wide courtyard beyond, and we were in front of a little door leading into quite a small, bare-looking room, where we found a little man.

  • The carriage drew up, and without any further ceremony he jumped down and pushed into my landau a little man, square all over, who was wearing a fur cap pulled down over his eyes, and an enormous diamond in his cravat.

  • You think me very cruel, now, don't you, my little man?

  • Miss Burton called me her little sweetheart, and sent me messages, and vowed that I was quite a little man of the world, and then was sure that I was a desperate flirt.

  • I won't hurt you, my little man," he added, with the affable mendaciousness of his craft.

  • He was a little man, and suffered a deal from the quinsies in the autumn.

  • Dance away, my little man," said Peter, who was in high good humour.

  • Yes, my little man," Slightly anxiously replied, who had chapped knuckles.

  • A boatman was rowing, and a little man in a pink-ribboned straw hat and whites stood in the stern hailing them.

  • Certain sensations of the hands and knees called the little man back to more immediate things.

  • You see," Hen had said, "nobody knows how hard it is to be a little man.

  • These two matters stir the gentle little man to great wrath.

  • Before him stood a little man, who had apparently followed him out of the public-house.

  • He was a little man, in a long black tail-coat much too large, and dirty gray trousers.

  • But, at length, she found that the cause of the great shadow was only a little man; and that this little man was no other than her father's cousin, Robert Bruce.

  • I thanked him, and whispering Punchard to keep an eye on the Frenchmen, and especially on the wagoner, I stepped boldly in and confronted the maire, a little man with a cocked hat over his gray wig.

  • Then Runnles, being a little man, crawled to the other end and looped the rope about the loosened stone there.

  • Among the last, James Moore was borne past the little man.

  • For he stood now, holding the Master's arm; while a few paces above them was the little man, pale but determined, the expression on his face betraying his consciousness of the irony of the situation.

  • And each man, as he came in and saw the little lone figure for once without its huge attendant genius, put the same question; while the dogs sniffed about the little man, as though suspecting treachery.

  • A little man, all wet and shrunk, sat hunching on a mound above them, rocking his shrivelled form to and fro in the agony of his merriment.

  • Both the big man and the little man went in and, bowing, stood before the king.

  • There is in this whole country no such bowman as I am; but no king would let me join his army because I am such a little man.

  • This crooked little man said to himself: "If I go to the king and ask him to let me join his army, he's sure to ask what a little man like me is good for.

  • To whichever cause we are to attribute this hyperbolical tone, we hold it certain he could not have adopted it, if he had been a little man.

  • Parody on "There was a little man, and he had a little gun.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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