undersize

Example Sentences

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The book’s table of contents is also modest, designed to resemble a typically undersize European golf score card: nine chapters out, nine chapters in.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

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

The undersize forward also applied suffocating defense while guarding Banchero, a 6-foot-10, 250-pound freshman standout.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2022

“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

He tossed the undersize crab back in the water.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings