dwarf
Example Sentences
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The most massive of these worlds begin to resemble brown dwarfs, substellar objects sometimes called "failed stars" because they do not fuse hydrogen.
From Science Daily
“I don’t mind any of them, but dwarf is the appropriate word since I have dwarfism. But the acceptable term if you want to be politically correct is little person.”
From Literature
He felt dwarfed by the enormous redwood and tried not to imagine what would have happened if it had landed on him.
From Literature
If I really want to sound pretentious, I’d call the Super Bowl the final fireplace of the digital era, with a live audience that dwarfs every other show in the U.S., even Bluey.
That is nothing to sneeze at—though it is dwarfed by the $13 trillion that was indexed to the S&P 500.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
