smallish

Example Sentences

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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

While the £700m-£1bn a year it raises in the UK is smallish beer, since the UK and France introduced a hit to big tech's revenues, many other countries have followed suit.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

You may have heard during the last few days about the resignation by the president of a smallish university in New England.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

It was a smallish bungalow, not really spacious enough for their family of eight, though it was located near a country club with a swimming pool for the children.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik