bantam
Example Sentences
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However, they were adamant in only bringing one team for the 7/8U bantam division that has garnered the recent negative attention in the media.
From Fox News
Bantamweight apparently takes its name from the bantam, named for a particularly feisty kind of chicken, originally from Bantam in Java.
From Salon
A bantam alpha, gut sucked into his chest, shoulders padded out like a linebacker, hair center-parted and pomaded back; the little creep who makes nothing but takes a fee on it anyway.
From Los Angeles Times
To the bantam octogenarian, who loved parasailing and hit the weight room the day after she broke three ribs in a fall.
From Washington Post
“We had all manner of unusual bantams, geese and pigs. Orphaned lambs wandered through the kitchen. I found ducklings in the bath.”
From Washington Post
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