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Example sentences for "undersized"

Lexicographically close words:
undershirts; undershot; underside; undersides; undersigned; underskirt; underskirts; undersleeves; undersold; understand
  1. Tulp had come up misshapen and undersized from his long siege with the small-pox, and with very rickety and unstable legs.

  2. An ordinary flight of steps would have taxed his diminutive legs; his body and shoulders were those of an undersized lad; and, awkwardly set on them, an enormous head wagged.

  3. What kind of being her fears had raised for her she did not know; what she saw was a rather undersized man with sloping shoulders and a handkerchief tucked into the back of his neck.

  4. He was just polishing off the undersized little man with the truss.

  5. Of the two who companioned him one was an undersized little individual wearing a truss, the other appeared to be wearing a suit of deep brown tights out of which his red neck and red hands thrust conspicuously.

  6. Sadie Crane was now sixteen years old, and being undersized and childish of appearance had never had the pleasure of the company of a young man.

  7. But though Sadie Crane was undersized and spoke scornfully, she was old enough to feel a woman's desires and dream a woman's dreams.

  8. Bert was a lean, undersized boy about fifteen years of age and about four feet nine inches in height.

  9. The boy was trembling with cold and he looked pitifully undersized and frail as he bent over his work with an old apron girt about him.

  10. Indeed, were it not for the strange glance the undersized little man had given to the passer-by, he would have been convinced that he was actually once again under the protection of the all-powerful ruler of the criminal underworld.

  11. They were slim, tough creatures who gazed in silent contempt upon the undersized people who came to observe them.

  12. Peaceable, kindly, the sturdy undersized people of the outlands were driven to a supreme selfishness by reason of the conditions under which they lived.

  13. Later on he was sent to the communal school, but the director of the school in the Via Ricasoli, seeing how undersized and backward he was, sent him to the Asylum-School for defective children.

  14. He could see all the figures on the deck, and he had heard the people say that the undersized man, with the fur-cap tied over his ears, was the great Duke, and the tall lank man behind him was the Marquis of Southwold.

  15. The Duke was an undersized man with a dingy dull complexion and bandy legs.

  16. The former was an undersized American of distant Irish extraction who was so broad chested, swollen armed, square-jawed and generally self-reliant and forceful as to seem a minor Titan.

  17. He was never weary of looking at the undersized French soldiery with their wide red trousers, blue coats and red caps, or the police with their capes and swords and the cab drivers with their air of leisurely superiority.

  18. Out of it sprang a rather undersized man with a steel-gray beard and very keen gray eyes, but not at all impressive looking.

  19. Parks, as they came to where a lithe, undersized man was volubly boasting to an open-mouthed crowd about the superior merits of his machine.

  20. Outside the station we were greeted by a howling mob, composed of women and undersized lads and children, but few men.

  21. Only then, something in the stocky, undersized figure made me realize that it was the sergeant-major of our camp!

  22. A small, undersized young fellow, dressed in ragged, faded jeans, who was standing on the outer fringe of the watchers, stared at the little man as if he were a ghost.

  23. The assembled men stared wonderingly at the undersized boy.

  24. He was a small, undersized man of about twenty-eight.

  25. It seemed that when first his team had been reduced to one rather undersized dog he did arrange for his charge to walk.

  26. There was an undersized boy three years older who often picked on me and with whom I would have no peaceful commerce.

  27. Both men bowed, and at the same time did their best not to feel much smaller than the diminutive duke who held them as an undersized rattlesnake might fascinate a couple of finches.

  28. You're an undersized liar," was the somewhat pointed reply.

  29. Thus Sherbrand, meditating on his Fate to be, while Destiny limped towards him in the person of an undersized telegraph-clerk whose complexion, previously pallid, had deteriorated to dirty green.

  30. The undersized clerk had waved a hand from the threshold of the cabin.

  31. But the cry of Macrombie's undersized assistant was the hammer-blow that drove the nail to the quick.

  32. At the base of the tail one or more undersized scales usually are present on each side, and there might be some question as to precisely where the count should begin.

  33. Six of the racers were first-year young but the remaining one was thought to be an undersized second-year individual.

  34. They ought never to fix an undersized pulley wheel.

  35. The best judge in Hillsborough condemned it; and now, if you are not running it with an undersized pulley-wheel, to try it worse!

  36. Ram Baksh's "lots of horses" were three pair between Nasirabad and Deoli--three pair of undersized ponies who did wonders.

  37. In the back of the court-room a dark undersized figure had entered unperceived and supporting himself heavily on his cane, had advanced to the middle of the room, where a second time he cried: "Who says that Max Fargus is dead?

  38. Undersized hens that lack constitutional vigor are not the kinds to select for successful turkey breeding.

  39. Discard undersized females at all times, as they are of little value as producers.

  40. With a skin which is olive-coloured rather than red, they have small limbs and undersized frames; whilst their habits are, mutatis mutandis, those of the intertropical African.

  41. They were all in fine condition, and looked like giants behind the undersized bystanders.

  42. A number of slender and undersized figures moved about.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undersized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bony; diminutive; dumpy; dwarf; dwarfed; elfin; flat; gangling; gaunt; gawky; incipient; lanky; lean; little; meager; midget; puny; pygmy; rawboned; rudimentary; runty; scraggy; scrawny; scrubby; shriveled; shrunken; skeletal; skinny; small; spare; spidery; spindly; squat; stunted; thin; twiggy; undersized; underweight; wizened