How to Use dwarf in a Sentence

dwarf

1 of 3 noun

• Shetland ponies are the dwarfs of the horse world.
• Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
• This year’s draw is Scary Snow White and the killer dwarves.
  — Mary Wakeford, azcentral, 17 Oct. 2019
• That seven dwarves mine ride is the best one in the whole damn park.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The gnats came for the dwarf Meyer lemon tree and the burro’s tail on the balcony.
  — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• The Milky Way hasn’t been kind to the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2020
• The researchers identify a K dwarf star as the most ideal in the study.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• Nyx was likely once a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 July 2020
• There was a battle for moisture, and your dwarf pine lost.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• Then two years ago, the school bought two Nigerian dwarf goats, Sawyer and Scout.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Rangy moose emerge from groves of dwarf trees to threaten trespassers.
  — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• This one has been traced to a small dwarf galaxy over 3 billion light-years away.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
• Red dwarf stars are the smallest and most abundant stars in our galaxy.
  — Fox News, 14 July 2020
• Among the exhibits are two pigs and four dwarf buffalo.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Among the plants are dwarf palms, white flowers and a variety of shrubs, trees and grasses.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• The signals come from a dwarf galaxy that's some 3 billion light-years away from Earth.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
• The misshapen dwarf imagines that the callous little princess loves him.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• By studying the size and shape of the cloud, the astronomers say the objects involved in the space collision may have been the size of dwarf planets.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 Mar. 2022
• Deep snow has made much of the willows and dwarf birch that moose depend on unavailable.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• To produce such a cloud, NASA said the colliding objects must have been the size of dwarf planets.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2022
• The Welsh actor plays the young dwarf with a fiery passion, deeply proud of his kingdom and loyal to his wife Disa (Sophia Nomvete).
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• For a smaller holly that deer do not eat, select the dwarf yaupon holly.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2021
• These Nigerian dwarf goats are two years old and live in the Spaulding Children's zoo.
  — cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• And, just for good measure, the pair also has a distant companion that's an old and rare dwarf star.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• But the ground-hugging dwarf iris, sometimes called the rock garden iris, is among the earliest bulbs to appear in spring.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• The issue is home prices in Boise dwarf residents' incomes.
  — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2021
• Type like a true dwarf with this secret language keyboard.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
• The dwarf and standard yaupon hollies are also not eaten by deer.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
• What bothers me is when people say that dwarf planets are not planets.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2021
• The dwarf planets Eris and Haumea are believed to be similar to Pluto in composition, with water ice on the surface.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022

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dwarf

2 of 3 verb

• An eruption of that scale would dwarf blasts like 1991's Pinatubo.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
• But the scale of [the US Festival] just dwarfed anything else.
  — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• But the scant signs of progress were dwarfed by other measures.
  — Rachel Siegel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• The building will soar to 563 feet, dwarfing some of its neighbors and setting a new bar as the tallest tower in the city.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
• The turnout then, however, was dwarfed by the numbers over this weekend.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• Only 10% of the ocean floor is properly mapped, and mountain ranges and canyons dwarf even the largest warship.
  — Alexander Wooley, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• Baby dwarf sperm whales are on average three to four feet long, says 2seewhales.com.
  — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• The size of Hung’s trades dwarfs those that got his subordinate, who has denied any wrongdoing, in the crosshairs of the SEC.
  — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
• Though Ola and Uber do not break down their users by vehicle type, their numbers dwarf those of Oye.
  — Simran Vaswani, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• But interest rate moves still seem to dwarf most other things on Wall Street.
  — WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
• But interest-rate moves still seem to dwarf most other things on Wall Street.
  — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• That's a black eye that dwarfs even a 59-point destruction, if that's even possible.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• Nearly a dozen kids have come into the world, and with them mountains of child support that dwarf his earnings.
  — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
• Prosecutors have pegged the scope of the FTX fraud as high as $9 billion, which dwarfs all but the most egregious swindles.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 29 Sep. 2023
• Those sums dwarf investment flows between the U.S. and China.
  — Tom Fairless, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
• But the environmental calamity posed by the Safer may dwarf even the one created by the Exxon Valdez.
  — Christopher Reddy, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• The sum will probably dwarf the combined spending of the other candidates in the field.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• The Big Oak Tree dwarfs a security guard patrolling near the clubhouse.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• The financing of that deal will, most likely, dwarf what City has offered Haaland.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• In all, The Idol is another exercise in which the outsized ambitions of a man dwarf that of a woman.
  — Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 30 June 2023
• In all, The Idol is another exercise in which the outsized ambitions of a man dwarfs that of a woman.
  — Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 29 June 2023
• Now comes word of another danger that could dwarf the others.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
• The new, and as yet unnamed concept, would dwarf even the largest superyachts in Monte Carlo’s Port Hercule harbor.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2022
• Plus, any ticket sales will be dwarfed by the lucrative consumer products line.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• But Ford’s price to earnings ratio of 12 is dwarfed by Tesla’s famously high 70.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• The filings say Vice has outstanding debt of $834 million, dwarfing the amount that Vice was recently in talks to sell for.
  — Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• Ditto for investment, flows of which dwarf the movement of tradable goods.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• His time in the limelight dwarfs his soon-to-be opponent’s experience.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The massive Eastside parking structure would be one of the largest garages in the world — eclipsing the one-time record-holding Mickey & Friends garage that would be dwarfed by comparison.
  — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2024
• But the film’s sense of scope is no smaller for it: Shots of aircraft carriers flying across the screen like toy boats and fishing boats dwarfed by the monster’s massive head create a sense of awe-inspiring scale.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024

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dwarf

3 of 3 adjective

• The pears are mature semi-dwarf trees, a Bosc and a Bartlett.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2020
• In the world of reptiles, the dwarf gecko is both the smallest lizard and the smallest reptile.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• Some are dwarf, growing only to 3 to 5 feet tall, so they would always be used as shrubs.
  — ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• And there are reasons to think planets so close to a dwarf star might lack atmospheres.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2023
• Adams invests about 3,000 hours of labor in building each dwarf car.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2021
• The specific planet observed in this case is Trappist-1b, which orbits closest in to the dwarf star Trappist-1.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Examples include the pygmy elephants of Malta, the dwarf Burmese python and even some species of dinosaur.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2020
• Last year my semi-dwarf Braeburn had scant blossoms only along the very top.
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2022
• Any apple variety can be a dwarf if the tree is grafted to a dwarf-sized rootstock, Mohn says.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Before 2003, the Omura's whale was thought to be simply a dwarf version of another type of whale.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2015
• Some types become small trees; others are dwarf varieties that remain three to four feet tall and wide.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 21 July 2023
• Beginning around six billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy named Sagittarius sideswiped the Milky Way and swung around it.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• There are standard varieties which can grow up to 10 feet tall or dwarf varieties that reach no taller than 2-3 feet tall.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2021
• Sunbelt was already planning to replace the bentgrass greens with ultra-dwarf bermudagrass in 2024.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2022
• Baby bok choy can be either a dwarf variety or a small, immature plant.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2021
• The shortest dog ever recorded was a dwarf Yorkshire terrier in the United Kingdom.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• Look for dwarf varieties that are non-invasive and won’t overtake your garden.
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 24 June 2022
• The dwarf spinner dolphin, which had glowing teeth, was the only species that didn’t exhibit fluorescence on the outside of its body.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Eggplant plants can get large; look for dwarf varieties when growing in containers.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 18 July 2022
• The Egyptian pantheon of gods included several dwarf deities.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• There were three bedrooms—easily convertible to four—and amenities such as a dishwasher and a soaker hose for the back garden (herbs, rose of Sharon, a dwarf crab-apple tree).
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
• In this hands-on workshop, participants will graft and take home a semi-dwarf producing apple tree, suitable for the coastal climate.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• His great innovation was to go shorter, developing what was known as semi-dwarf wheat whose stems would not bend under the weight of larger grains.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• The hope is that studying dwarf galaxies like WLM could provide more insight into how galaxies form overall.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 Nov. 2022
• The findings also give researchers the chance to study how dwarf galaxies form to be dimmer and wispier than previously thought possible.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• But most of these early explorers were in it primarily for the quest for knowledge, not for the next weeping, variegated, dwarf form of some obscure garden plant.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Sep. 2020
• For a pink dwarf crape myrtle, the experts identified Pokomoto as a selection to consider.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 July 2018
• Lavender and rosemary share space with dwarf Mexican bush sage, blue fescue, ‘Sunset’ manzanita, and shasta daisies.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• The team estimates that Nube is a dwarf galaxy only one-tenth as bright as others of its type, yet 10 times larger than other galaxies with a comparable number of stars.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Replacing lawn grass with the usual ground covers such as Asian jasmine, dwarf Mexican petunia or mondo grass is a good way to deal with shade, save water and reduce the amount of work required to maintain the landscape.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024