undersize

Example Sentences

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Still, it has been undersize in the trading business in some key ways.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

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

That was the landscape DeMoro encountered as she led the undersize 17,000-member California Nurses Association into the fight against what she would term “the commodification of health.”

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2019

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