smallish
Example Sentences
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This crew - smallish in number but sufficiently large to assault the eardrums of the management and players - are an odd bunch.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
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
McCormick finds the smallish, hook-beaked birds by listening for their distinctive calls.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024
The Shearwater was a smallish ship whose captain surely knew these waters well enough to manage on his own.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
