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Example sentences for "small size"

  • The cranial cavity is of small size, and is never much elevated.

  • It will be well here to briefly refer to certain mammals of small size, the remains of which have been found in deposits of Mesozoic age.

  • The skull is noticeable for the size and backward position of the anterior nares, also for the absence or small size of the nasal bones.

  • The three principal classes are to be found in this region; but of these, the fringing and barrier-reefs are more commonly distributed, whilst the atolls are comparatively few in number and of small size.

  • In some islands of small size, we find the natives markedly different from those around them.

  • That the word caravel was intended to signify a vessel of a small size is evident from a naval classification made by king Alonzo in the middle of the thirteenth century.

  • They are all evidently vessels of small size, and light construction.

  • He approached the shore in his remaining boat, of small size, taking with him his principal pilot, an arquebusier, and four oarsmen.

  • The vessel was of small size; it kept out to sea, but sent its boat to visit the ships.

  • The wood is pale yellow tinged with green, and, because of small size, is of little importance.

  • The tree grows in the pine barrens near the coast from South Carolina to Florida, and it is found also in great abundance, but generally of small size, on the west coast of Florida from Tampa to the Apalachicola river.

  • Basswood is generally not difficult to identify in summer, but in winter a person only slightly acquainted with different trees might take it for cucumber, and if of small size, it might possibly be mistaken for ash or mountain maple.

  • Wild lime (Xanthoxylum fagara) is a similar tree, growing in both Florida and Texas, but it is of small size.

  • Indian elephant of a small size, covered with shaggy hair.

  • Islands remote from continents, especially those of small size, are either destitute of quadrupeds, except such as have been conveyed to them by man, or contain species peculiar to them.

  • Still older than the above are some fossil quadrupeds of small size, found in the Upper Trias of Stuttgart in Germany, and more lately by Mr. C.

  • They sold at enormous prices; and were employed at the tables only of the great and wealthy, as cups for drinking; they were in general of a small size.

  • Arabia furnished diamonds, but these were chiefly of a small size, and other gems and pearls.

  • The Apogonidæ or cardinal-fishes are perch-like fishes, mostly of small size, with two distinct short dorsal fins.

  • Most but not all of the species are of small size, living in fresh or brackish water, and they are found in almost all warm regions, though scantily represented in California, Japan, and Polynesia.

  • The species are mostly of small size, silvery in color, living in moderate depths in warm seas.

  • As far down as the junction of Switching river the country on both sides of the Little Churchill produces black spruce, white birch and tamarack of small size.

  • It is rare and of small size on Knee lake.

  • The spruce might be described as generally of a small size, but making up in quantity in the number of logs that might be obtained.

  • The balsam poplar is rare and of small size at Churchill.

  • They are of small size, oval, and present a striking contrast to all other skulls in the Peabody collection.

  • That the ancient Peruvian skulls are, with rare exceptions, of small size, is undoubted; and in view of this it becomes a matter of some importance to determine whether this was in any degree due to a correspondingly small stature.

  • Julius Haast, he gives the difference as fifteen times the size of the right aperture; the mouth is also peculiar from its position and small size, being very much overshot by the snout.

  • They are of small size, the body being about a foot long, and the tall fourteen inches, and are thickly clothed with soft grey and brown fur, similar in substance to that of the rabbit.

  • They are principally inhabitants of Siberia and the north of Europe; their voice is sharp and piercing, and they are destitute of any tail; they are all of small size, none of them exceeding the dimensions of a large Rat.

  • They are also found along our coasts; the Flounders are fresh water Fishes of small size, abundant in the Thames and many other rivers; and they are desirable for food, although not so delicately flavored as the Turbot.

  • The Swift Pigeon is of small size, its flight is light and rapid.

  • Thus we find in Europe flocks with coarse or fine wool, of large or of small size, with long horns or with short horns—some in which the horns are wanting in the females; others in which they are deficient in both sexes.

  • Euro Some of them, however, were of small size, and probably active and bird-like in their movements.

  • Without a known exception these are of small size, and if furnished at all with mounting, only that of a simple character.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small size" 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 aperture; small army; small bundle; small cells; small circle; small city; small fire; small fish; small folio; small herd; small holdings; small intestine; small lump; small minority; small party; small pieces; small plate; small public; small river; small round; small star; small steamer; small tube; smaller quantity; taken back