Lilliputian
Example Sentences
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Nearby are additional puzzling landscapes in which other Lilliputian figures, at times the scale of insects, feel overwhelmed by outsize vegetation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025
The visual goal, she reminded us: “It’s about being in Lilliputian land — about making your trough believable, a miniature landscape.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023
Set largely in and around a house nestled in the woods, Sciamma’s Lilliputian tour de force is a wittily modern fairy tale and model of elegant narrative economy.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022
In light of this, Wheatcroft seems like a single Lilliputian attempting to tie down Gulliver with a single thread.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021
“I’m very sensitive. My feelings get hurt very easily. So you can tell the Lilliputian that I am not going to move until he apologizes.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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