smallish

Example Sentences

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“It’s a smallish club and it does get really cliquey,” said Pamela Andres, a former general manager at SYC who quit in 2022, stressed out over member misbehavior.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

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

Ranchi, smallish by Indian standards, is full to the brim, and some journalists have been slung out of their hotels.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2024

In a typical play on words, she conjured up a term for these smallish storage vessels that suggest sly little narratives: “Story-age.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

McCandless was smallish with the hard, stringy physique of an itinerant laborer.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer