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

Both the county and the provincial education office run grant programs to keep undersize schools such as Dochang afloat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023

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