pygmy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Pygmy possums would be unlikely to share their box with the spiders; in 2019, a huntsman, which can be six inches from leg to leg, reportedly ate a pygmy possum in Tasmania.
From New York Times
The music of the Central African Pygmy people, he points out, “can involve eighteen separate interlocking parts.”
From Washington Post
That makes wistful pessimism about the human condition seem like common sense: Yes, living in a truly egalitarian society might be possible if you’re a Pygmy or a Kalahari Bushman.
From New York Times
Unsurprisingly, chimpanzee, gorilla and elephant populations have continued to decline even as Pygmy peoples have been consigned to poverty and misery.
From Scientific American
Only the Pygmy three-toed sloth, the bradypus pygmaeus species that lives in Panama, is critically endangered, according to the U.N. agency.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
