Lilliputian

Example Sentences

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Purdue, like Virginia, saw its plan and offense undergo a gathering disintegration as the Lilliputian opponent kept gathering mustard.

From Washington Post

Cincinnati, which filled the near-annual role of the lamenting Lilliputian last season as the top team from outside the so-called Power Five, got No. 8, quite a reflection upon it.

From Washington Post

Dotting the landscape would be 2,500 Lilliputian scale models of various cultural, natural and industrial resources.

From Washington Post

It was that China, woven into global commerce in a way the primitive Soviet Union never was, would, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, be constrained, and perhaps liberalized, by a thousand threads of commitments.

From Washington Post

Their names in ancient Greek may mean “fear” and “dread’, but the aesthetics of these Lilliputian space potatoes inspire anything but.

From New York Times