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Sentence Examples The product has sleek, clean lines, a diminutive form factor, and less than half of the useful features that everyone was expecting. Here we meet a feisty, diminutive, quick-tempered Paul that few of us would gladly welcome in the seat next to us on a long airplane flight. The singer of Little Plato is as diminutive as his bands name, at times hidden behind his jumbo acoustic. He's diminutive enough to jockey a horse, but he's tough enough to wear down a defense. People naturally respond to the diminutive sax man's keening sound, funky rhythms and bluesy riffs. Bambara's feisty girls are not diminutive characters, to be outgrown with the coming of age of the movement. A decidedly diminutive parrot's head protruded from the pocket, ebon eyes madly agleam. A diminutive, wiry figure, he sits, smoking roll-ups and nursing a cup of black coffee, in the corner of his ground floor study in north London. Marsden Moor supports large numbers of moorland birds such as the golden plover, red grouse, curlew and the diminutive twite. They sell new potatoes, baby eggplant, tender zucchini, diminutive brassicas, cherry tomatoes, and more. As the rays hover over the seamounts, the diminutive angelfish come up and feed on the parasites that attach to the rays' skin. Maloney is a diminutive treasure, a pint-sized magician and, from free kicks, consistently lethal. The diminutive striker displayed a lethal eye for goal for the Blues two seasons ago and was one of the top scorers in the Premiership. These elegantly diminutive, finely wrought sculptures employ curved, flat and linear shapes that perch upon thin metal rods. The barrulet is the heraldic diminutive of the bar, and is generally one fourth the width of the bar. Despite their diminutive stature, the world's microchips levy a high toll on the environment. He was a somewhat diminutive boy, clad in a velvet suit with a lace collar, both of which were plentifully bespattered with mud. As they approached, the blast doors opened, revealing a diminutive figure clothed in a heavy, light blue smock. Everyone glanced at the diminutive Japanese girl, who immediately shrank into herself. This diminutive little switcher moved permanently to the cold climate of Seattle to become the turntable switcher at Interbay yard. Show More Sentences She is of diminutive stature and makes monumentally powerful, often huge sculptures. It probably looked and moved something like the diminutive chevrotain, or mouse deer, of Asian forests. Two of the mercenaries have taken it upon themselves to carry him, his diminutive legs being unequal to the task of running through marketplaces. This appealing, diminutive shrub blooms in spring with honey-scented flowers that look like bottlebrushes, and they are hummingbird magnets! She was a very fresh agent, a diminutive girl just recently graduated from college. The diminutive suffix is often used in Ute and Paiute to indicate youth or affection. In an overwhelmingly male milieu, the diminutive Borda added verve and vigour. These planes are normally characterized by their diminutive size so as to fit comfortably in their user's small hands. In the earliest days of women's bodybuilding, a diminutive Virginian became the torchbearer for smaller competitors. This is a car that has much more to offer than its diminutive looking size belies. And in that corner, we have Helen Sommers, a diminutive, 72-year-old number cruncher in reading glasses. He was diminutive, and how he managed to lift the heavy harness on the draught horses for ploughing was more than I could understand. With it's diminutive size, shockproof music and cool shape, the Philips Rush can easily be an ideal stocking stuffer for Christmas. Niemi stood his ground and pushed the diminutive striker's shot beyond the far post. A metal helmet was clamped over his small head, and chain mail covered by a diminutive tunic protected his slight frame. Agresti remains true to his diminutive hero, never breaking off from his point of view in an attempt to over-complicate the drama. The word was formed by adding the diminutive suffix to the Spanish word for war, guerra. Domestic dogs vary in size from diminutive, 1.5 kg chihuahuas to 90 kg giant mastiffs. He filled these interiors with diminutive tools of the given trade, all painstakingly crafted by his own hands. Nouns ending in d or g containing a long vowel or diphthong where that consonant is syncopated in the plural, preserve it in the diminutive. Show More Sentences On occasion, Evensong was conducted by a thrice-retired diminutive clergyman from the Ministry of Healing. He was immediately distinguished by his diminutive figure, extremely long white beard, and dark, penetrating eyes. The professor could only be called a cockalorum because his diminutive size was only surpassed by his enormous ego. The latter are allowed to take their course like diminutive picaresque novels. The driver's figure is composed of relatively few elements and, perched on a buckboard, seems diminutive in comparison to the neighboring group. The diminutive monkey in front of me puts a hard palm nut, the size of its fist, into one of the many small pits on the rock surface. The diminutive figurine is broken at the waist but preserves the torso and head of a lady and the high back of her elaborately decorated chair. My dirty-blond mop had become a trim black pixie cut, and I'd traded overalls for a diminutive miniskirt. Indeed, despite their diminutive size, his figurines often had hourglass shapes that hinted at plumpness and fertile futures. York marks the diminutive poacher's 13th club in a 13-year career that has taken him the length and breadth of England and Scotland. If you look carefully, you will see bee orchids and the diminutive frog orchid flourish on the quarry floor. The metal faithful congregated at Toronto's Docks to see the diminutive frontman, whose small stature misrepresents his powerful set of pipes. The diminutive professor looks pensive, and tries to extenuate his anguish with a shot at dark, gallows humour. At once, the diminutive Goblin leapt off the platform and struck a gong, signalling the beginning of the final battle. Maybe it's the diminutive use of his name, but Jonny A seems like some kind of a greaser in a leather jacket. But even these diminutive numbers tend to belie the extremely small spaces into which a ferret can fit. Sarah is a diminutive figure on stage, but when she sings her heavenly voice instantly makes her the centre of attention. As a child in Hungary, Janos was called by the diminutive form of his name, Jancsi. I've often revelled in these diminutive descriptors, because there's none other like me. The word alone, derived from a diminutive form of the Dutch name for cucumber, is enough to endear this crunchy pickle to anyone. Show More Sentences Here, he seems to agree with him on the correct spelling of diminutive forms. Its features include simplified grammar, exaggerated speech melody, diminutive forms of words such as doggie, and a highly repetitive style. But do not be put off by their diminutive name or even by some of the many examples that have absolutely no interest to you. Ke is a diminutive suffix, conveying the sense of little in reference to the size of the dog. The word is a diminutive of inland navigator, referring to the men who built the canals that preceded the railways. The Latin term Regulus was first applied by Copernicus as a diminutive of its earlier form Rex, meaning King. I believe that Liz, simply as the diminutive of the name Elizabeth, has been suggested as the most likely source of the rock's name. But then, in the happiest moment at Bighorn, he actually referred to himself in the diminutive. In 1928 he proclaimed himself King of Albania, taking the name Zog, a diminutive of his family's surname. The name is derived from the diminutive of Vouge, a small stream flowing through the village. The fabric draped off her diminutive form, hiding her hands and bare feet easily. The diminutive luchador comes up through the floor of the stage and launches high into the air, setting the tone for the fast-paced action that is about to take place. One is a robust woman the artist has indicated is from the American Midwest and the other a diminutive man he has identified as a French legionnaire. Dundee's skills were evident as languid Sara turned the Aberdeen defence, Caballero played devilish deft passes and the diminutive white booted Novo proved a nagging menace. She reached into the diminutive pocket located near the bodice of her wrapper, and procured a set of metallic keys hanging from a rather large gold ring. Similar to the Space Shuttle in appearance, the diminutive X-37B is about a quarter the size of the old shuttles. The diminutive history teacher turned soldier once said he learned his trade in the bush. As the central figure is the diminutive yachtsman Peter Cummins, I felt it would be interesting to see just how much yachting he had done, where and with whom. In front of the two male imperial figures a diminutive courtier or herald holds open the scroll, presumably reading aloud the announcement of the betrothal. I'm male and go by the Russian diminutive of my legal name, Sasha. Show More Sentences But while she is no softie and revels in a little rough-and-tumble now and again, her diminutive figure belies the true extent of her football potential. Chinese elm has been a popular tree for small gardens because of its diminutive proportions and pleasant rounded canopy, but again, seeding can be a problem. In choosing these diminutive vistas, the photographers also imparted a sense of intimacy in the photos in their attempts to simulate dreamscapes or the unconscious. He is diminutive to meet, a coy and obtuse public speaker and a derivative thinker. It is the diminutive of the name given me by your great-great-grandmother. Andy's performance was especially impressive, as the diminutive axeman shifted from chunky rockers to white-soul wah-wahs with effortless dexterity. He became a volunteer in 1979 and took a shine to the diminutive station. This diminutive wasp is a powerful natural enemy of the melon fly. A diminutive figure in black, she nodded and smiled gently at the crowd. Smaller, richer-tasting meats such as pheasant, duck, partridge, pigeon, even diminutive quail are increasingly finding their way onto my Christmas table. His figure looked sadly diminutive in a gray T-shirt and faded blue jeans. Apparently the name Merkin comes from a diminutive form of Matilda. It's a toss-up whether the buildings are the diminutive structures of a miniature golf course or the towers of the wide world beyond the backyard. Every change of position flashes to view these diminutive birds' metallic coloring making the hummingbird an ideal subject for the chromolithographer and label collector. Though it could pull one car, smoke from the diminutive machine drifted through the car, choking out the passengers until an extra-tall smokestack was applied. Had he been in any other situation, the prince would have said something to counter the diminutive titles that the man had given him and his father. A late bloomer, the diminutive Pompey took up track for the first time after her family migrated to the US in 1992, following in the footsteps of her younger sister Allison. The earliest were over 20 cm in height, and the Italian diminutive refers to the reduced measurement of 14 cm, introduced when the first public opera houses opened in Venice. Tyrion, now on the lam for patricide by crossbow, is destined for an unknown foreign port like a diminutive Edward Snowden. The diminutive singer-songwriter performed in front of a small crowd to promote his debut album, The Return To Form Black Magick Party. Show More Sentences Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference. In addition to the diminutive, Yiddish has an 'iminutive', which is used to indicate that something is even smaller than a diminutive noun. The diminutive form castellum was used for fortlets, typically occupied by a detachment of a cohort or a century. Characteristics typical of deer include long, powerful legs, a diminutive tail and long ears. This, coupled with pathological dwarfism, could have resulted in a significantly diminutive human. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Half of the area's diminutive and secretive reed bed-dwelling water rails also call this place home. This pale, diminutive youth lived only 18 months more, leaving Mary a queen dowager before she had reached adulthood. Ray was a diminutive man with a giant personality, devastatingly funny, with a ready wit. The diminutive black redstart is harder to spot, despite its distinctive orange-red tail. Eyes blazing red and chests puffed out, the diminutive rockhoppers bicker incessantly while the larger, and calmer, albatrosses preen. At first glance, it even looked like referee Howard Webb had his own mascot, but it turned out to be diminutive lineswoman Sian Massey. Among these are the muriquis, which are the New World's largest monkeys, and the diminutive lion tamarins. The diminutive Rachel Cartwright is the bossiest Billy, or should that be nanny, playing the youngest and smartest goat gruff. At the opposite end of the range is the diminutive mousetail arum, arisarum proboscideum. The diminutive dinosaurs included the titanosaurian sauropod Magyarosaurus, which had a body length of about 16 to 19 feet. I'm small framed, although getting pudgier, so its diminutive size and short LOP is not an issue for me. Hydrozoans called Trachymedusae have diminutive bells and belong to the jet set. Friends remember her diminutive size, her large sun hats, her intense blue eyes, and her passionate love of dance. Underplant with bulbs, crocus or diminutive daffodils to extend into spring. Show More Sentences The diminutive planet didn't appear massive enough to push the outer planets around. Third, an ecocritical reading of the poem cannot in good faith relegate nature to the diminutive of a cycloramic backdrop. Eastward are Skiddaw Little Man, Lonscale Fell and the diminutive Latrigg, a pleasant short climb from Keswick. The diminutive least Bell's vireo, an endangered species, can be found darting in and out of the willow thickets. His surname 'Augustus' was given the diminutive form 'Augustulus' by rivals because he was still a minor, and he was never recognized outside of Italia as a legitimate ruler. She thus gave herself a kind of superpresence, allowing us to see that the source of all the explosive energy we had witnessed onstage was her diminutive frame. The National Gallery at Pall Mall was frequently overcrowded and hot and its diminutive size in comparison with the Louvre in Paris was the cause of national embarrassment. The main point in the diminutive and iminutive system is, however, not only that elements of two dialectally different subsystems of German have fused in the German component. His surname 'Augustus' was given the diminutive form 'Augustulus' by rivals because he was still a minor, and he was never recognized outside of Italy as a legitimate ruler. Though this sub is diminutive in size, we would never settle for small performance, so this small sub is built to the same standards as conventional subwoofers. The left kidney is diminutive and in most limpets is barely functional. Amongst many treasures I noticed a tiny bracelet for a diminutive wrist, comprising links of twinkling rose diamonds set in the palest of pink coral imaginable. But one group of bedsit residents say they love their diminutive homes so much that they will opt out of council plans to upgrade their accommodation. She stands among fallen roses, lacily diminutive, alone except for her wispy spaniel, in an arbour once dedicated to Love but now to Friendship at her Chateau de Bellevue. Because proteins are far smaller than the most diminutive bacterium, figuring out what each one looks like in its final, folded form is far from easy. Consider that the person asking is Mr. Bean, the diminutive, awkward, gravitationally challenged, accident-prone incarnation served up by Rowan Atkinson. The small number of brown snake observations is likely a function of their diminutive size and, perhaps, their proclivity to remain hidden beneath cover. Despite its diminutive size the single piston engine, developed by the university's School of Engineering, has more than 300 times the energy of an ordinary battery. Colouration of carapace blackish, dorsum covered with diminutive hairs adpressed to surface, with numerous long brown bristles on anterior part of eye field. Here we see a few of the 48 diminutive hopefuls who showed up that day, awaiting their turn to impress the judges with a high instep or a particularly sylphlike extension. Show More Sentences The diminutive creative midfielder would be a welcome addition to any squad, though, like Moric, there will be questions as to how he would fit into Real's starting lineup. The name baronet is a diminutive of the peerage title baron. Examples from Classical Literature Comparison is expressed by adding bn or kn or adin for the comparative, and apdi for the diminutive. The Italian affixes ino and ello have a diminutive meaning, and therefore both names have an identical signification. Gaige described Allophryne ruthveni as a new genus and species of diminutive bufonid from British Guiana. Calumet is an Old Norman word for chalumeau, reed, pipe, a diminutive from Lat. Who is so foolish as to chastise or instruct the ugly, or the diminutive, or the feeble? The termination ick or ck is often employed, as marking a diminutive object, or object of endearment. It is the diminutive of pluteus, a shed or penthouse, from its conical cap. As we proceeded on the soft, crustaceous surface, diminutive spouts of vapor would spit forth, as if to resent our intrusion. Cantharellus is a diminutive from a Greek word meaning a sort of drinking-cup. It contained a small table and a stove, the latter of diminutive size, but smoky enough to discomfit a host. The name is supposed to be a corruption of heaumet, the diminutive of heaume, the great helm of the fourteenth century. I need not tell you what this diminutive bottle might have been had for, before the kalends. A diminutive form of this was by our ladykin which was contracted into by our lakin. One is struck by the diminutive size of the native men and women at Tlaxcala. The pieces of t-shaped copper said to have been used as money, are diminutive forms of this same tool. Mrs. melder had been told to call her Lilias, and affection had already contracted the name into the familiar diminutive of Lilie. He shows us the cat as a diminutive but undomesticated tiger to whom we are nothing more than an overgrown and uneatable prey. As violino is the diminutive of viola, violoncino and violoncello are the diminutives of violone. A nutria appeared and some friendly dogs, and we heard of tame foxes and diminutive ponies to be seen next day. At the portal a diminutive messenger delivered a large white box, ornately bound in lavender ribbons. Show More Sentences The diminutive effigy she deposited upon the beach, setting it upright on its vaguely defined and overbroad feet. On it there was a diminutive pancake which had made itself from the drippings of an overgenerous spoonful. A young girl, lately married, and scarcely worth a filip so small and diminutive, was this winter seized with this phrensy. The thought, however, of a gold-rimmed vicar diminutive enough to enter font or poor box is somewhat staggering! If St. Mary's Church were large and imposing, the presbytery was old and diminutive. When the diminutive Abb de Voisenon was ordered by his physician to drink a quart of ptisan per hour, he was horrified. In the Lower Eocene are found the remains of a diminutive ungulate, of the stature of a moderately-sized dog. She had possession of the rocker, and she was busily engaged in sewing upon a diminutive pair of night-drawers. They afterwards called it Hispaniola, a diminutive of Hispania. McGregor delivers a lively vocal performance as the diminutive hero and Gervais predictably snaffles most of the best one-liners. Beside him, a diminutive figure of a nude boy holding a strigil. The figures were scarce a foot in height and but for their diminutive proportions might have been the mummified bodies of once living men. We have the diminutive in Mappin and the patronymic in Mapleson. Her feet, though wholly exposed, were as diminutive and fairly shaped as those which peep from beneath the skirts of a Lima lady's dress. This diminutive ending is formed from that in EC by the addition of en. Do you refer to Lorenzo il Magnifico, or to Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, or to Lorenzo surnamed Lorenzino on account of his diminutive stature? Athelny, with his powerful voice in the diminutive body, with his bombast, with his foreign look, with his emphasis, was an astonishing creature. We gather that it conveyed originally an idea of size and power, not as now in the diminutive of both these meanings. John raised the diminutive perch into the air and regarded it glumly. Tympanum is used for a timbrel or drum, tympanidia a diminutive of it. Show More Sentences In Carlow and Wexford, they add the diminutive, and make it goleen. Out, you diminutive pint-pot, whelped of an overgrown reckoning! Name a diminutive of marsupium, a pouch, from the form of the perianth. Mrs. Tidditt, diminutive but combative, offered a suggestion. Fogg and Aouda, installing themselves at a table, were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue. You were remarking to yourself that his diminutive figure unfitted him for tragedy. Dimple is a diminutive of dip, and cognate with dingle and dapple. The pendent ornament called a tassel is a diminutive of Mid. Paludosella is a diminutive of palus, gen. paludis, a swamp or marsh. Parenzos first name was Sigismondo, of which mondo is the diminutive. The word scamillus is a diminutive of scamnum, a mounting-block or bench. Then it often has a diminutive or disparaging signification. A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them. Open and expansively horizontal, Proportioned to the Groove contrasted with the more diminutive Still Life with Fish, even as the two blurred rhizomatically. Macerinus, a diminutive, means leanish, poorish, out of case. He held out his Sahara of his palm, and the Reverend laid his diminutive hand in it, and got so cordial a shake that we heard his glove burst under it. With 19 goals and 18 assists the league this season, relatively diminutive Tejchma has made a big impression Tyneside since arriving from Mississippi Sea Wolves summer. Mademoiselle Reisz, being exceedingly diminutive, was elevated upon cushions, as small children are sometimes hoisted at table upon bulky volumes. She opened it, and out came a diminutive hall porter at whose belt hung a tiny chain, at the end of which was a golden key half as long as the smallest pin you ever saw. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of diminutive? Words that rhyme with diminutive What is the plural of diminutive? What is the adverb for diminutive? What is the adjective for diminutive? What is the noun for diminutive? Translations for diminutive Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words diminution diminuitive diminuendo diminishment diminishing returns diminishing marginal utility diminutiveness diminutives dimish dimissory Dimitri dimity 10-letter Words Starting With d di dim dimi dimin diminu diminut diminuti diminutiv