Examples of puny in a Sentence
I wouldn't mess with him—he makes bodybuilders look puny in comparison.
We laughed at their puny attempt to trick us.
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And that means something in a Hollywood that now caters to puny screens and punier visions, outsourcing the finer mechanics of action filmmaking to the visual-effects department.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 May 2025
Vampire Survivors weighs in at a puny 600 megabytes.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
That puny loaf is for this baker’s secret pleasure.
—Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Most of these colleges have relatively puny endowments.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes, 3 Feb. 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 May 2025
Vampire Survivors weighs in at a puny 600 megabytes.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
That puny loaf is for this baker’s secret pleasure.
—Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Most of these colleges have relatively puny endowments.
—Emma Whitford, Forbes, 3 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for puny
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“Puny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puny. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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