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
The company’s smallish software business operates at close to breakeven and the Bitcoin holdings yield nothing.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
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
She bought him a smallish, unweighted wooden set that was housed in a sliding, unvarnished wooden box.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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