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Example sentences for "tiny"

Lexicographically close words:
tints; tintype; tintypes; tinue; tinware; tio; tiological; tiologie; tiology; tiom
  1. He refreshed himself at every water hole he came to, whether it were a running brook, or just a tiny pond with a thin skim of ice along the shore.

  2. What she wanted to sketch was only a small girl in a gay kimono and a big red umbrella, but the tiny mite made a vivid spot of color as she stood motionless to watch a great brown moth hovering over a bed of iris.

  3. Soon each child had a large share not only of cake, but also of tiny flags and paper cherry blossoms which had adorned the owner's booth.

  4. At present she rented a tiny house in the Quarters and called it her preaching place.

  5. Then one glorious dawn the tiny creature smiled as only a baby can, and gave up the struggle.

  6. He looked towards the window, just in time to see a tiny swallow turn and fly from the ledge, and a red-breasted Bourbon, was balancing on a branch and singing its aria to him.

  7. Lloyd took her tiny trembling hand into his own and spoke to her.

  8. Impatience reigned on a tiny speck of universal dust.

  9. She paced over the tiny wooden bridges that spanned the midget streams meandering about the entire estate.

  10. Do not let war shatter our tiny planet for the benefit of just a few, who would profit from it -- become rich and powerful from the death of those weaker than themselves.

  11. He lay still, tiny beads of sweat streaming from his brow.

  12. And each one digs his tiny prongs into the smarting, burning, itching poor devil on top of their homestead.

  13. The outer edges of the hill rose higher than the centre, a little rivulet ran across tiny indentations on the crown of that rampart, and there was ample space for an army to lie concealed from the eyes of enemies.

  14. The groom took a tiny pinch and smiled sadly, as though committing some deadly sin.

  15. Chiverni took the Queen's hand to kiss it, and slipped into her fingers a tiny letter without being seen by the Italians.

  16. The light was admitted through tiny square slits at regular intervals below the outer cornice of the structure, forming its ornamentation, no doubt, in character with this pleasing style of architecture.

  17. When I first found myself in his skin, I discerned there an amazing number of tiny beings, moving, thinking, and arguing.

  18. Rise to the heights whence men see each other truly, though tiny and crowded as the sands of the seashore.

  19. The tiny trembling tendons That twine about the heart, Are chords that yield a music Unknown to vocal art.

  20. He breathes upon the leafless tree; He whispers to the tiny flower.

  21. A sweet, tiny bird on a twig near the river, Was warbling softly his choice matin lay, While near on a branch we soon did discover A serpent preparing to make him his prey.

  22. Around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious armchair, with two tiny white hands poised like gulls on the surface of the billows.

  23. They talked, and even while the cheers were ringing and the money rolled in dissent raised its tiny head.

  24. This tree seemed to bear all the year around, for there were lunch-box blossoms on some of the branches, and on others tiny little lunch-boxes that were as yet quite green, and evidently not fit to eat until they had grown bigger.

  25. Among the new characters are Eureka, Dorothy's Pink Kitten, and the Nine Tiny Piglets.

  26. Oh, some fat red ants, and some sand-bugs, and once in a while a tiny crab.

  27. Don't worry," advised Billina, pecking at a tiny bug that was crawling over the chair back.

  28. Poor mite, who slept forgotten in its tiny grave----!

  29. Quite slowly through the gilded doors came a tiny figure dressed in wreaths of leaves and flowers, a golden bow in his hand, and at his side a miniature quiver filled with paper arrows.

  30. You can see the tiny line of this chain in the few known portraits of Wilhelmine von Grävenitz.

  31. At first she could not find it, but after some moments she felt the tiny keyhole, and, fitting the key, she turned it and the door swung open.

  32. Sam Pretty Cow lipped the edge of his cigarette paper, folded it down smoothly on the tiny roll of tobacco, leaned his body backward and painstakingly drew a match from the small pocket of his grimy blue overalls.

  33. But from the day we arrived up-country, it became increasingly evident that something was amiss with our tiny dog.

  34. Just the moment before I had been wondering whether my tiny pony could make the final effort necessary to attain the top of that hill.

  35. The only way was to walk very fast; then the four little feet would go galloping along, the tiny puppy bent on showing he could run as fast as other people.

  36. If quite smooth, little circles were traced with Indian ink upon the polled pate--this was done by the eye, and often one had to be effaced and retraced; then a tiny packet was handed to the kneeling one.

  37. A man sat on the ground, and with one hand worked a bellows, thus making forced draught, while with the other he threw on a tiny handful of rice husks, not enough to choke the bright flame roused by the draught.

  38. However, the donkey brought was so tiny that, after a rest on its poor little thin back, I tried the cart again.

  39. They prefer necklaces each bead of which is made out of a tiny portion of a human skull, thus each bone representing a human life.

  40. This peculiar little creature builds a cunning play-house, a tiny shady bower which it ornaments with vines and highly colored feathers of other birds, besides the yellow blossoms of the wattle-tree and many light-green ferns.

  41. The royal villa stands in the midst of a stately grove, surrounded by graceful fountains, tiny lakes, and delightful flower-gardens.

  42. The tiny creature delegated by Providence to build these reefs dies on exposure to the air, its work being then completed.

  43. Azaleas, laurels, and tiny clumps of bamboos, are the most common plants to be seen in these charming little spots of greenery.

  44. Dismasting our ship, we thrust her into a tiny bay o'erhung by giant trees, and neither from river nor bank could a glimpse of her be obtained.

  45. Peggy had loved her and mothered her since she was a tiny prattler of three, and she often found her, as she declared to her gossips, "a handful.

  46. Although it is sometimes eaten it is not considered especially good for food; it does not often measure much over two feet in length, and is covered with a soft, slimy skin, and sometimes with tiny scales almost too small to be seen.

  47. When under water, their fur is covered with multitudes of tiny air-bubbles that shine like silver and have a beautiful effect when seen against the dark surface of the body.

  48. An easy, simple, and pleasant book for the tiny scholars of the nursery-room.

  49. Dick, impatiently, as they watched the tiny craft moving irregularly toward them.

  50. For a time, which lengthened to dragging minutes, the anxious experimenters hung over the tiny field instrument.

  51. The bell battery was found, the ground connection made with a bit of copper wire stripped from one of the state-rooms, and Ford quickly adjusted the delicate spring of the tiny field relay.

  52. Just as the day dawned tiny spiral columns of vapor began to rise from the lake, and before sunrise we were completely wrapped in a dense fog.

  53. Having no interest in the scramble for beds, we enjoyed the evening breeze and the excitement of the tiny tumult.

  54. The little hamlet of the Revolution and the tiny village of 1814 have grown into a flourishing city.

  55. In the center of the terrace is a marble basin, from the bottom of which bubbles up a tiny fountain of pure water.

  56. How can those tiny hands help to bear a burden such as mine?

  57. The cow just lifted up her head and looked at him for a moment; then, as if she well knew that such a tiny thing could do her no harm, put it down and began to eat again.

  58. There she stood, bareheaded, with the wind blowing her curls, her tiny hands over her face, crying so pitifully that some of those who stood by felt as if they must cry with her, but still no one could get a word from her.

  59. My friend, you call that tiny green mound in the churchyard God's silence.

  60. Why, the man is in a tiny cell, and he is going blind.

  61. Something, probably a heavy truck, had started a tiny oscillation in that ball.

  62. I gave it up and went away, wondering; but I took the stephanotis, and it stands in front of me now in a tiny vase of water.

  63. The first two or three cottages I came to were empty, but I made my way to a solitary hut which I saw standing in the centre of a tiny bay.

  64. On her head, falling in graceful folds over her shoulders, was a dark gossamer veil, studded with tiny gold stars, and bordered by a wide hem of shining gold lace.

  65. Fifteen or twenty feet on the inside of this ditch was a tiny lean-to under the trees.

  66. Still you speak no word, but the tiny fragments of that card are now so small that you can no longer divide them, and some drop from your hands upon the floor.

  67. But now the fire had widened its path, and is enveloping the tiny island.

  68. See, the tiny waves that curl before our boat are like thin ink; a thousand roots and herbs and who knows what mysterious vegetable mixture colors these dark deeps?

  69. It was a great step in advance when, long before the dawn of Greek history, these tiny communities were united with Athens.

  70. Of all the Balkan states only tiny Montenegro, protected by mountain ramparts, preserved its independence.

  71. With four tiny ships he set sail from Lisbon in July, 1497 A.

  72. This tiny land could not support a large population.

  73. The set in vest is of black-striped gold cloth trimmed with gold thread crochet buttons and with tiny waistcoat of black moire.

  74. It is a tiny individual, and your responsibilities as parents and caretakers are very great.

  75. Little tiny babies are so helpless--they are so dependent upon their seniors for life itself--that our responsibility is indeed great.

  76. Taken early, when the scalp is covered with tiny flakes known as milk crust, it can be quickly relieved.

  77. Sandy soil and country districts are infected by a tiny worm which thrives in polluted soil and enters the body through the skin of the feet.

  78. PLAY SUITS As the baby grows up into the child, the tiny clothes are laid aside and the boy is given substantial garments that in no way remind him of girls' clothing.

  79. Worms come from the eating of half-cooked meats; they enter the stomach as eggs or tiny worms, and pass out into the small intestines, where they begin to grow.

  80. The boy and girl baby seeds are too tiny to be seen with the eye.

  81. With Helene Vauquier to support her if she fell, Celia took a tiny shuffling step forward, feeling supremely ridiculous.

  82. And a second afterwards a tiny bright light shone.

  83. From the crack of the door by the hinge he picked off a tiny piece of pale green stuff, which he spread out upon the back of his hand.

  84. There was a tiny phial half full of a dark-brown liquid, beside it a little leather case lay open, and across the case, ready for use or waiting to be filled, was a bright morphia needle.

  85. The touch turned on a tiny lamp in the roof of the carriage, and she raised a warning hand to Celia.

  86. I warned mademoiselle that there was a tiny fire burning in the salon.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    close; cramped; cursory; depthless; diminutive; elfin; few; fine; imperceptible; inconsequential; inconsiderable; insignificant; little; low; marginal; meager; miniature; minute; negligible; nominal; petite; petty; picayune; puny; shallow; short; slight; small; stunted; superficial; tiny; trifling; trivial; undersized


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tiny cupboard; tiny house; tiny little; tiny pinch; tiny woman