smallish
Example Sentences
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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
Ranchi, smallish by Indian standards, is full to the brim, and some journalists have been slung out of their hotels.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024
In a typical play on words, she conjured up a term for these smallish storage vessels that suggest sly little narratives: “Story-age.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Udodi was a smallish ordinary-looking man with nothing of the knowing charm or subtle arrogance of Major Madu.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
