undersize

Example Sentences

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“We have tried to underspend and undersize what was really needed to get over the top of the mountain,” the Republican governor told reporters during a Friday coronavirus briefing.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2021

The same could be said of Mitski Miyawaki’s work: Her songs mine rich, dark interior worlds, probing feelings of isolation, yearning and outsize ambition met with undersize rewards.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020

Marlin worries excessively about Nemo because of his undersize “lucky fin,” a remnant of that scary prenatal attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

The implications of undersize type Ia supernovae extend far beyond the elements in the present-day universe.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 4, 2020

The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr