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Example sentences for "smallish"

Lexicographically close words:
small; smalle; smaller; smallest; smallie; smallness; smallpox; smally; smalt; smart
  1. It contained an occupant: a smallish man with mild-looking gray eyes, who at their entrance rose up from where he sat, staring steadily at them.

  2. It commences with a region lined by a fairly columnar epithelium with smallish nuclei (fig.

  3. The roof is formed of two or three layers of smallish pigmented cells, and the floor of large cells, which form the greater part of the ovum.

  4. Three grown-up persons sat down to the one day's meal, a smallish dumpling, seasoned with highly peppered sauce of hada, and a little fat.

  5. Only two of the strangers seemed armed and they negligently bore their smallish guns in the crooks of their arms.

  6. When no one else answered, a smallish man, dressed in the costume of the Dogon, to the south, came to his feet and to the head of the room.

  7. The bowler hat increased in appreciation, being of a short type, with smallish brim.

  8. A cape with smallish hood worn in the earlier reigns was supplanted about 1777 by the calash, a huge hood set out with whalebone which came to cover the full head-dresses.

  9. They fastened up the front in a pleated fold, many being decorated with punched, pricked, or slashed design of a smallish character.

  10. Barnabas crossed to a cabinet, unlocked a drawer, and taking thence a smallish bag that jingled, began to count out a certain sum upon the table.

  11. Me being only a smallish chap myself, I've allus 'ad a 'ankering arter sizable coves.

  12. Ye give me credit for a smallish sense of dacency.

  13. Dark forms scrambled over the fence and vanished, but as Noble got to his feet he was joined by a dim and smallish figure in white--though more light would have disclosed a pink sash girdling its middle.

  14. He was a smallish man, well rounded, pleasant-faced, and inordinately proud of his name.

  15. Mike made his way through the tray-carrying hordes that were milling about, and finally ended up at the table where the smallish man was sitting.

  16. On a smallish table close by, are sheets of paper, cigarette ends, and two claret bottles.

  17. They caught only two smallish trout, hardly enough for a good mess, but that didn't matter.

  18. The lake, a smallish one, lay at the bottom of a great horseshoe amphitheatre.

  19. He was a smallish man, bald and with what are sometimes called pop-eyes.

  20. They were all of the same neat, smallish size.

  21. It was a smallish table, with a very few daisy-flowers: everything rather frail, and sparse.

  22. Leach was a smallish man with a harsh face, jet eyebrows, a gray brushcut.

  23. A smallish man with white hair and a red whisky face sat half behind Lieutenant Prine, on the small gilded radiator in front of the single window.

  24. The colonel had appeared on the balcony, a smallish man, very yellow in the face, with grizzled black hair and very shabby legs.

  25. He had managed a store in America, in a smallish town.

  26. Thus on a heavy soil there is a prospect of failure in respect of the late crop, but that is obviated by adopting a made bed--one of smallish dimensions being sufficient to accommodate a large stock of plants.

  27. But we much prefer to begin with smallish hillocks, or with a thin sharp ridge raised so as almost to touch the lights, and to plant or sow on this ridge, which can be added to from time to time as the plants require more root room.

  28. Why are smallish tubers chosen in one case and planted whole?

  29. Generally speaking, smallish heads, neat in shape and pure in colour, are preferred.

  30. Shift to final quarters while in a smallish state.

  31. His dark, vigorous hair sat close to his smallish head.

  32. She had very handsome, strong arms, rather surprising on a smallish woman.

  33. He was rather tall, very portly, smallish head, commonplace features mild brown eye not very bright, short beard, and wore a suit of tweed all one color.

  34. They made a smallish mouth at rest, but parted ever so wide when they smiled, and ravished the beholder with long, even rows of dazzling white teeth.

  35. The man was in evening dress, evening dress in that singularly crumpled state it assumes after the hour of dawn, and above his dishevelled red hair, a smallish Gibus hat tilted remarkably forward.

  36. And yet I know a smallish man back home who gets exactly 10 times the money that this man pays his overseer per month.

  37. The whole thing is about the size of a smallish hen-house, the upper floor representing the roosts.

  38. They were made by shoes armed with smallish hob-nails, which were arranged in a diamond-shaped pattern on the holes and in a cross on the heels.

  39. Cooper's dispenser, suggesting to Thorndyke that he should walk on to the house; but when I emerged from the shop some ten minutes later he was waiting outside, with a smallish brown-paper parcel under each arm.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smallish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cramped; dinky; exiguous; limited; little; monkey; petite; piddling; poky; puny; short; slight; small