miniature
Example Sentences
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The diggers, up to 62-feet high, are miniature factories that can munch their way through the toughest of rocks while laying pipes, cables and cladding as they go.
“He’s a really nice guy,” said executive pastry chef Ron Paprocki of his boss, while overseeing the creation of miniature desserts.
“This paper is our town in miniature—committed, conversational and a little bit quirky.”
From Los Angeles Times
Surgeons implanted an auxiliary liver graft derived from a genetically modified Diannan miniature pig featuring 10 targeted gene alterations.
From Science Daily
The ingested loot is set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires, according to the jeweller's website, and opens to reveal an 18-carat gold miniature octopus.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
