How to Use bantam in a Sentence

bantam

noun
  • Years before, Meade had played for Monte with the Chicago Blues at the bantam level.
    Jon J. Kerr, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • Finley is a 6th overall bantam pick who played in his first game Friday.
    Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Many breeds come in two sizes: standard (also known as large breed) and bantam, which are typically one-quarter the size of standard birds.
    Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
  • And for decades, one bantam-sized tailor has outfitted more than his share of hulking hockey stars. Giovanni Vacca, 86, stands about 5-foot-5 and sports a black suit, V-neck sweater and dress shirt.
    Salim Valji, New York Times, 10 June 2019
  • There were large chickens, Asiatic chickens, and game bantams.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Many layer, broiler, and dual-purpose breeds are available as standards or bantams.
    Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
  • An officer responding to a report of a chicken running through an intersection was able to capture the black bantam rooster.
    Washington Post, 23 May 2017
  • These bantam stars were considered unlikely to host many close-in planets — worlds that orbit near enough to their suns to receive sufficient energy to sustain life.
    NBC News, 9 Oct. 2019
  • His voice, clipped and nasal, had a bantam toughness, and his sentences (in life, not literature) make regular detours from formidable erudition into the slangy and profane.
    Mark Binelli, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • If all goes according to plan, these bantam pioneers will get up-close looks at Proxima b, the possibly habitable planet that circles the sun's nearest star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2018
  • Eventually, ispace aims to set up a robotic lunar transportation service and use its bantam rovers to identify and help exploit the resources available on Earth's nearest neighbor, such as water ice.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Years before, Meade had played for Monte with the Chicago Blues at the bantam level.
    Jon J. Kerr, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • Finley is a 6th overall bantam pick who played in his first game Friday.
    Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Many breeds come in two sizes: standard (also known as large breed) and bantam, which are typically one-quarter the size of standard birds.
    Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
  • And for decades, one bantam-sized tailor has outfitted more than his share of hulking hockey stars. Giovanni Vacca, 86, stands about 5-foot-5 and sports a black suit, V-neck sweater and dress shirt.
    Salim Valji, New York Times, 10 June 2019
  • There were large chickens, Asiatic chickens, and game bantams.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Many layer, broiler, and dual-purpose breeds are available as standards or bantams.
    Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
  • An officer responding to a report of a chicken running through an intersection was able to capture the black bantam rooster.
    Washington Post, 23 May 2017
  • These bantam stars were considered unlikely to host many close-in planets — worlds that orbit near enough to their suns to receive sufficient energy to sustain life.
    NBC News, 9 Oct. 2019
  • His voice, clipped and nasal, had a bantam toughness, and his sentences (in life, not literature) make regular detours from formidable erudition into the slangy and profane.
    Mark Binelli, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • If all goes according to plan, these bantam pioneers will get up-close looks at Proxima b, the possibly habitable planet that circles the sun's nearest star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2018
  • Eventually, ispace aims to set up a robotic lunar transportation service and use its bantam rovers to identify and help exploit the resources available on Earth's nearest neighbor, such as water ice.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018

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