undersize
Example Sentences
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The book’s table of contents is also modest, designed to resemble a typically undersize European golf score card: nine chapters out, nine chapters in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
I vacillated frenetically between oversize and undersize clothes, ambivalent about whether I wanted to draw attention or repel it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
The undersize forward also applied suffocating defense while guarding Banchero, a 6-foot-10, 250-pound freshman standout.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
“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 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
