wee

Example Sentences

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The wee powered hardtop mechanism does retract, after a fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

I will have a wee look at it but I would think the club would probably be looking at somebody younger.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

News reports said some 3,500 police and soldiers took part in the operation that began in the wee hours.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

"That was quite a horrific, traumatic experience, because I was only a couple of minutes from dying, so the emotions are still quite raw even though it was a wee while ago."

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

The NACAites ran their giant turbines into the wee hours if necessary, engineers pressing the machines for answers to their research questions like night owls on the hunt for mice.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly