pigmy

Example Sentences

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As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their hope was that they could hew him down to their own pigmy size, but he died while still towering over them, loved by millions, and respected by multitudes .

From Time Magazine Archive

Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is there any good reason for supposing that our pigmy planet, so insignificant compared with many celestial bodies, is the only one containing life?

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff