miniature

A thick blanket of fog covers the floor, occasionally flashing with miniature bolts of lightning that remind me of static shocks.

Mrs. Clarke began folding the basket of cloth diapers and comically miniature baby clothes she had brought to fill the dresser drawers.

Was the parrot—this thespian parrot, impersonating a pirate’s parrot, with a miniature costume eye patch covering one beady little bird eye—was this talented avian of the stage howling?

Coins are, in fact, so important to our knowledge of what has gone on before us that they have been called both “newspapers in metal” and “miniature libraries of history.”

Now that this ability has been demonstrated in insects, researchers can test how such timing mechanisms function in miniature brains that are smaller than a cubic millimeter.