undersize

Example Sentences

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I vacillated frenetically between oversize and undersize clothes, ambivalent about whether I wanted to draw attention or repel it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

“We have tried to underspend and undersize what was really needed to get over the top of the mountain,” the Republican governor told reporters during a Friday coronavirus briefing.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2021

For much of his career, McKinnie had operated as an undersize power forward.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

In contrast, the undersize antibodies of sharks and the camel family are not half-finished rejects.

From Science Magazine • May 10, 2018

The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr