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microcosmic
Example Sentences
“Delaware is a microcosm of the country as a whole,” Russ says.
You could argue that its evolution is a microcosm of what’s happening in West Virginia at large.
In Brazil, there was a microcosmic slice of the kind of public role he is attempting to carve.
Literature is essentially a niche interest, and, as such, is subject to its own microcosmic fads.
The oxide of niobium dissolved in a bead of microcosmic salt gives a bluish colour in the reducing flame.
Heat the substance with a bead of microcosmic salt or borax on a platinum wire in the oxidizing flame.
He is determined to tell the truth of our microcosmic baseness.
Many of the silicates give with borax a clear bead, while they form with microcosmic salt an opalescent one.
Fused with borax, soda, or microcosmic salt, they give a clear bead.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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