dwarf

Example Sentences

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The discovery, reported in Science, centers on a small, faint red dwarf star that is cooler and less massive than the Sun.

From Science Daily

Even so, it has been clear for many years that the likely cost of just one big-ticket item — healthcare — dwarfs what most people have salted away for retirement.

From MarketWatch

The most massive of these worlds begin to resemble brown dwarfs, substellar objects sometimes called "failed stars" because they do not fuse hydrogen.

From Science Daily

“I don’t mind any of them, but dwarf is the appropriate word since I have dwarfism. But the acceptable term if you want to be politically correct is little person.”

From Literature

He felt dwarfed by the enormous redwood and tried not to imagine what would have happened if it had landed on him.

From Literature