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Example sentences for "small wonder"

  • Small wonder if, amid its countless tragic memorials, the South does not forget.

  • Small wonder that I took no thought of whither I was going.

  • If this were the popular idea of the bird, small wonder is it that heraldic artists perpetuated the idea, and even now the heraldic ostrich is seldom seen without a key or a horse-shoe in its beak.

  • Small wonder, then, that the same ideas dominated the rules of armory.

  • Being considered, as it is, the symbol of industry, small wonder that it has been so frequently adopted.

  • Small wonder if my Lord Carnal thinks it's time he was back at Whitehall.

  • Small wonder, when my life is in the balance.

  • Small wonder if he had loved her for herself, she was so beautiful.

  • Small wonder it would have been if she had taken Beatrice's place in his heart during those weeks of close and daily converse.

  • Small wonder indeed, that it should be thought by the credulous that the end of the world, the Last Judgment, had truly come.

  • All honour to him if he outgrow his base surroundings; small wonder if he is like poor Tip, "of the prison prisonous and of the streets streety.

  • Small wonder, indeed, that the great fire of 1666 destroyed so much of the Temple!

  • Small wonder if, having in his mountain solitude seen, or thought he had seen, a vision of the Great Unity which men call God, he should have claimed inspiration, and claimed it militantly.

  • Small wonder, then, with a priesthood of clutching hands, that Som-nath stood renowned as the richest shrine in India.

  • Small wonder if the very heavens fought for him.

  • Yet looking back on the four hundred years of Mahomedan inroads which we have just followed, small wonder can be felt at the persistence of this terror.

  • Small wonder is it, that this labored and ridiculous piece of impertinence was received with ironical laughter on the Republican side of the Senate Chamber.

  • Under all these circumstances it is small wonder if men exclaimed as Augustine did somewhat later in his commentary on St. John--"How many seek Jesus only that He may benefit them in earthly matters!

  • Small wonder was it that his sentiments on the question of the war were undergoing a marked alteration.

  • Small wonder that a new era began to dawn for the Colonists!

  • Small wonder was it that indignation ran riot when the first Military Governor openly cast his lot with the enemies of the cause and consorted with them freely and frequently.

  • Guided in its conduct almost entirely by a policy of personal predilections, which is fitfully reinforced by the recollection of precedents, it is small wonder if such mountains of mistakes choke every Legation dossier.

  • Small wonder if Hugo didn't guess that she had thought twenty times in two weeks of actually doing this thing she spoke of.

  • Small wonder if in prospect this victorious evening had been starred in her mind in purple and gold.

  • The strong probability was that she had a bad sick headache coming on; small wonder, either, after nearly fainting with poor Miller and others at the Works.

  • Small wonder then, if the organism accustomed to this immemorial control, runs a bit wild when it finds itself absolutely free to do and think as it likes.

  • Small wonder, said the village matrons, when they returned from their occasional visits, seeing that she awaited a fatherless child.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small wonder" 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:
    armed warriors; general movement; scale manufacturing; small beer; small body; small brook; small circle; small cove; small deposits; small flat; small fraction; small fragment; small iron; small knife; small line; small party; small patch; small pinch; small plain; small quarto; small shot; small silver; small squadron; small volume; small water; smaller number