How to Use small in a Sentence

small

1 of 2 adjective

• They live in a small house.
• The movie was a small success.
• The toy is small enough to fit in my pocket.
• She moved to a smaller town.
• There are still a few small details we have to deal with.
• This room is a little smaller than that one.
• The change had only a small impact on the community.
• It's only a small mistake.
• Thus the left wheel of the train was smaller than the right wheel of the train.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
• My style is way worse than that of a small child, and 2.
  — Ruby Buddemeyer, Marie Claire, 15 June 2018
• The white shirt has brown stripes on the sleeves and a small Browns logo.
  — Hannah Drown, cleveland, 6 July 2020
• Stroud knows that even if the window is small, the throw will be there.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
• The numbers, big or small, gave her some peace of mind.
  — Michael Errigo, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• But sometimes, the big fish should stay in the small pond to defend the minnows from the sharks.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Notice the small details in Sansa's sleeves and the wolf stole around her neck.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 May 2019
• The package came in a small black box, covered in tape.
  — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 22 May 2018
• The litmus test: was the bathroom too small to close the door behind her?
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2022
• Add a small amount of cream of tartar to stabilize the egg whites.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2022
• Both chicks are small, fluffy and hang out with their parents.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 July 2019
• The bee hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world weighing 2 grams.
  — Brian Broom, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• This is because the roots are just beginning to grow, and the plant is still small.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023
• If your tortilla doesn’t inflate, the culprit might be a small tear in the seam.
  — Haneen J. Iqbal, Bon Appétit, 2 Feb. 2023
• Barnard’s star is also a very small and dim type of star known as a red dwarf.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• Yet this is only a small part of what a welfare state does.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Zeiger, then 26, was a nurse in a small surgical unit there.
  — Jim Rendon, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
• Scott’s speech was to a quieter and smaller room — and for only a fraction of the time.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The effects in that study are small, and need replicating, but make sense to me.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Nov. 2017
• Bring a small saucepan of water deep enough to cover two eggs to a boil over high heat.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Scott Sherman is the mayor of Winona, Minnesota, a small city on the banks of the Mississippi.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
• In a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed, the Jefferson Lab team calculated that this radius may be about 25 percent smaller than the charge radius, just 0.6 femtometers.
  — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024

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small

2 of 2 noun

• These shirts are all smalls.
• Then place the right hand along the small of your back and open up the right shoulder even more.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
• Bring the other hand to the small of your back with your palm up, or to the back of your neck with the palm down.
  — Amanda Loudin, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2019
• The big are getting bigger, and the small are struggling.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 22 June 2023
• His hand went to the small of my back, tracing the space just above my tailbone.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2022
• Plus sizes and curvy fits sat alongside smalls and slim fits.
  — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
• In fact, even the big guys are jumping on the small-is-mighty bandwagon.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2022
• Inmates wear drug dispensers at the small of their back.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• One thing that works to discourage ants is to hang a small can between the hook on the eaves and the feeder.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2022
• Keep the left palm pressing into the earth or deepen the twist by taking the left hand to the small of your back.
  — Kelly Dinardo New York Times, Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Finish each tasty tree with a small for a pine needle look.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2021
• If not, just be prepared to take the smalls out a minute or two before the bigs to avoid overcooking.
  — Dawn Perry, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Now, brush aside your overcoat and tuck the object snugly into the waist of your pants at the small of your back.
  — Michael Finkel, Time, 14 June 2023
• Which of the three groups (normals, smalls, Epi2s) will be most successful?
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2017
• Stand tall with your feet hip-width apart, core engaged, and your hands placed one on top the other at the small of your back.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 21 Feb. 2022
• The revolver was designed to be easily concealed on the small of his back.
  — Les Payne, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
• The vest falls right at the waist, and the detachable five-layer foam seat flips up and securely out of the way at the small of the back for a no-bulk design.
  — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
• The baby’s head was creating intense pressure in the small of her back.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• The Suns can be tempted at some point to give up Jackson, an athletic small forward who would help the Cavs.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• At one point, the pair leaned in close for a kiss, with Kinnaman wrapping an arm around his fiancée and placing it on the small of her back.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• So, 60 famine years are needed for smalls to make up 90 percent of the population.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2017
• Cary pressed on, his fanny pack and its contents jabbing the small of his back, but encountered more signs.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• Later, a female worker came up behind her and put her hand on the small of Barraza’s back and asked her a question.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2022
• And in an ominous sign for Democrats, Biden has seen his own poll numbers slumping -- in no small over the impacts of inflation.
  — Manu Raju, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• The victim told police one man placed what felt like a gun in the small of his back while the second offender took the wallet from his back pocket.
  — chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• In the sweet black-and-white photo captured by Chris Jackson, Kate could be seen gently placing her hand on the small of her husband's back.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
• His mother joined him, along with Hancock, who now oversaw the family’s safety and wore a handgun at the small of his back.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• With Maxi Kleber out with right ankle soreness, Dallas played long stretches of small-ball.
  — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2022
• Models barely wore makeup, if any at all, and hair was left imperfect and tousled; some were given waves down to the smalls of their backs.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 14 Feb. 2023
• What started as a small niche carved out for Black comics in the small of the Store has become its own institution within the club that welcomes everyone of all shades, to get on the mic.
  — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024