small potato

Example Sentences

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He lives in an iron-roofed house, tends a small potato garden in his front yard and tracks global events—from the conflicts in the Middle East to European soccer—via his smartphone.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

"Our food was one small potato a day," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2025

Also, even if administrators in the school are annoyed with your “insubordination,” you are a decidedly small potato in the field of enormous spuds that your administrators face on a weekly basis.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2021

Then “they saw in a Washington Post classified ad that there was a small potato chip factory for sale in Southern Maryland,” Cohen says.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2014

There was a small potato cellar beneath the kitchen floor: they enlarged the trapdoor letting into it, put a large rug on top of it, and moved the kitchen table to stand on this spot.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom