DIMINUTIVE in a Sentence
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25 example sentences for DIMINUTIVE, such as:
1. She was rather diminutive altogether.
2. She has diminutive hands for an adult.
3. He experienced no diminution of his physical strength.
4. We thought her diminutive figure could not suffer that work.
5. The diminution of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise.
2. She has diminutive hands for an adult.
3. He experienced no diminution of his physical strength.
4. We thought her diminutive figure could not suffer that work.
5. The diminution of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise.
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Meanings and Examples of DIMINUTIVE
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diminutive
n. a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness
a. very small
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 She had possession of the rocker, and she was busily engaged in sewing upon a diminutive pair of night-drawers.
2 A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.
3 Mademoiselle Reisz, being exceedingly diminutive, was elevated upon cushions, as small children are sometimes hoisted at table upon bulky volumes.
4 It might have pleased fortune, to have let the Lilliputians find some nation, where the people were as diminutive with respect to them, as they were to me.
5 The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal.
6 She looked at Mrs. Swithin as if she had been a dinosaur or a very diminutive mammoth.
7 Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
8 Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made him pay his fare.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
9 They shed their blood lyrically for the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
10 She was rather diminutive altogether.
11 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
12 He knew, from the diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the earth road.
13 This diminution saddened devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their race.
14 The diminution of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
15 Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a diminution of misery and an augmentation of health.
Example Sentence:
1 We thought her diminutive figure could not suffer that work.
2 She has diminutive hands for an adult.
3 He experienced no diminution of his physical strength.