small potato
Example Sentences
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He lives in an iron-roofed house, tends a small potato garden in his front yard and tracks global events—from the conflicts in the Middle East to European soccer—via his smartphone.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
"Our food was one small potato a day," he said.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2025
Also, even if administrators in the school are annoyed with your “insubordination,” you are a decidedly small potato in the field of enormous spuds that your administrators face on a weekly basis.
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2021
Then “they saw in a Washington Post classified ad that there was a small potato chip factory for sale in Southern Maryland,” Cohen says.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2014
Little Willy lived with his grandfather on a small potato farm in Wyoming.
From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
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