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
The company’s smallish software business operates at close to breakeven and the Bitcoin holdings yield nothing.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 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
The first step was an egg, then beside it coiled a smallish, snaky-looking creature with tiny wings.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack