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Example sentences for "small part"

  • But in the north end of the island of Zanone, the Chevalier de Dolomieu finds a small part of a similar limestone in vertical strata, closely united with the volcanic materials of the islands now under consideration.

  • In short all orders required pass in the same way and quickly reach the troops; as almost the whole Lacedaemonian army, save for a small part, consists of officers under officers, and the care of what is to be done falls upon many.

  • The same winter the Lacedaemonians and their allies, the Corinthians excepted, marched into the Argive territory, and ravaged a small part of the land, and took some yokes of oxen and carried off some corn.

  • Foremost in pressing for the sally were the Acharnians, as constituting no small part of the army of the state, and as it was their land that was being ravaged.

  • Gradually a slight change for the better occurred, the writings of Captain Mahan playing no small part therein.

  • In Cuba, as in the Philippines and as in Porto Rico, Santo Domingo, and later in Panama, no small part of our success was due to the fact that we put in the highest grade of men as public officials.

  • No small part of our success was due to the fact that we succeeded in impressing on the Japanese that we sincerely admired and respected them, and desired to treat them with the utmost consideration.

  • Here I was able to accomplish only a small part of what I desired to accomplish.

  • But the historical portion of human life on the globe is but a small part of the grand whole.

  • But inclosures and defensive works are only a small part of the Mound Builders' remains.

  • But, as the tribe did not have any land of its own, except for some official purpose, this implies that each gens would have to set aside a small part of its territory for such purpose.

  • But this was only a small part of his triumph.

  • While he hesitated, Jaquess and Gilmore did their last small part in American history and left the stage.

  • But the village was a small part of Sangamon County.

  • I knew he was hunting for one of those insects which afterwards played no small part in the general discomfort of the Great War, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to learn privately what they looked like.

  • I told him it was only a small part of their army that had failed and that the rest had behaved very gallantly.

  • We have just been looking at the second class of expenditures, and our brief examination of it shows clearly enough that the ancient city took upon its shoulders only a small part of the burden which a modern municipality assumes.

  • We may fancy that these verses played no small part in spurring on Marcus Brutus to emulate his ancestor and join the conspiracy against the tyrant.

  • If we may draw an inference from the election posters in Pompeii, such subjects played a small part in a city election under the Empire.

  • A small part of the Jesuitical faction had, before the pregnancy of the Queen was announced, seriously thought of setting him up as a competitor of the Princess of Orange.

  • Some men who had hitherto served him but too strenuously for their own fame and for the public welfare had begun to feel painful misgivings, and occasionally ventured to hint a small part of what they felt.

  • But, on close inquiry, it will appear that the disgrace belongs to but a small part of the Puritan party.

  • It plays no small part in the life of humanity.

  • Numberless illustrations might be given of the fact that, not merely ignorance and error, but also a short- sighted heedlessness plays no small part in introducing elements of the accidental and irrational into the social will.

  • But no small part of the irrationality of the actual social will must be set down, in the last instance, to that peculiar form of irrationality in the individual or in groups of individuals which we call selfishness.

  • The erosion represented in the canyons, although vast, is but a small part of the great erosion of the region, for between the cliffs blocks have been carried away far superior in magnitude to those necessary to fill the canyons.

  • If any one will look upon that picture, and then realize that it was but a small part of the landscape before us on this memorable 26th day of September, he will understand why I suppress my notes descriptive of the scene.

  • No small part of savage life is devoted to cult ceremonies and observances.

  • No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity.

  • A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

  • It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.

  • But it being essential unto a Scholar to love a Scholar, so did he; and in Token thereof, endowed the Library of Harvard-Colledge with no small part of his own.

  • The priest replied, that only a small part of the night was gone, and told him to sleep in peace.

  • Floods of treasure would have poured into this kingdom from such a source; and, under proper management, no small part of it would have taken a public direction, and have fructified an exhausted exchequer.

  • For when the scanty provision made for the unfunded debt is to be vindicated, then we are told it is a very small part of that debt which carries interest.

  • She aids us at all times by the money that her absentees spend amongst us; which is no small part of the rental of that kingdom.

  • It has lost a consummate actor, though in a small part.

  • Still, however, these bewildering researches made but a small part, comparatively speaking, of the occupation of her thoughts.

  • Its fertile wheat-fields yielded harvests which, now that agriculture had begun to decay in Italy, provided no small part of the daily bread of Rome.

  • I spend whole days with him, and often no small part of the night; for I beg him to dine with me as often as he can.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    small amount; small bits; small branches; small bulb; small bunch; small cells; small compass; small cottage; small degree; small farms; small flat; small head; small library; small lump; small matter; small octavo; small opening; small patch; small place; small plain; small quantities; small state; small things; smaller number; smallest independent; twenty four