- comparative of small.
smaller
Example Sentences
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Creditors were already putting pressure on smaller firms that have been struggling with this historic debt balance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
I’ve tried to reciprocate in smaller ways — buying dinner, bringing wine when we’re staying somewhere, picking up other expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The smaller community authorities would contribute to local planning decisions, town centre regeneration, licensing and the historic environment.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Those experimental masses are about 500 billion trillion times smaller than Earth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
It had smaller classes than the public school, and his parents thought it was a “better fit for him,” which was fine with Bat.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
