On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Puny. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as weak or small and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Puny meaning
- Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak.
- (Frequently) ill; poorly, sickly.
- Alternative spelling of puisne.
Using Puny
- The main meaning on this page is: Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak. | (Frequently) ill; poorly, sickly. | Alternative spelling of puisne.
- Useful related words include: weak, runty, shrimpy, small.
- In the example corpus, puny often appears in combinations such as: the puny, puny humans, look puny.
Context around Puny
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Puny
- In this selection, "puny" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, look, future, annihilate, humans, compared and school stand out and add context to how "puny" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit puny a single and a little puny regardless of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "puny" sits close to words such as actinium, adherent and adipose, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with puny
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Embrace your cybernetic future, puny humans. (6 words)
The current horn is “puny” in comparison, David says. (9 words)
Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities. (12 words)
If Amazon and other megacorporations paid anything like their fair share in taxes, and if the world's biggest polluters hadn't spent decades blocking action on climate, we wouldn't be complaining about Amazon's puny donation in the first place. (42 words)
It is also easy to sympathize with the professionals at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, because they are also underpaid and given a puny agency budget (by the legislators) with which to handle an ever-increasing workload. (39 words)
Simple elevation has enabled Thomas-Poulsen to render the rather limp flatness of the Krudttønden stage, which in view of an over-looming audience can seem a little puny regardless of the subject matter of the play. (37 words)
And so was this monster, with a huge speaker’s fee of $75,000 for a puny school to dish out? (21 words)
It makes that half a bird still lingering in your fridge look puny in comparison, doesn’t it? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
And so was this monster, with a huge speaker’s fee of $75,000 for a puny school to dish out?
As a man of currently average height (5’10”), I look forward to someday towering over the rest of you puny humans.
It makes that half a bird still lingering in your fridge look puny in comparison, doesn’t it?
Next to the power and desires of the human heart and mind, few things stand a chance, certainly not the puny construct we like to call the real world.
The government’s puny response is to provide £4.5bn for investment in advanced manufacturing during five years to 2030 (actually, ) through subsidies and grants rather than direct investment.
Embrace your cybernetic future, puny humans.
The once 1,400 foot pier shrunk down to a puny 800 feet.
Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.
If Amazon and other megacorporations paid anything like their fair share in taxes, and if the world's biggest polluters hadn't spent decades blocking action on climate, we wouldn't be complaining about Amazon's puny donation in the first place.
It is also easy to sympathize with the professionals at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, because they are also underpaid and given a puny agency budget (by the legislators) with which to handle an ever-increasing workload.
It is a sign of how fast things are moving that the Fed’s QE expansion, which was 3.3% of US GDP, now looks puny.
One more put: 'That's puny compared to the arsenal Florida's packing.
The costs of an ambitious response are puny compared to those incurred as a result of hesitation or errors.
The current horn is “puny” in comparison, David says.
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a premier secret research project that injects him having a DNA enhancing super serum that turns him from puny kid to unstoppable super soldier.
Kazakhstan Honoured coach Farit Ayupov immediately saw potential in the future champion, a puny little girl remembered for her perseverance.
Simple elevation has enabled Thomas-Poulsen to render the rather limp flatness of the Krudttønden stage, which in view of an over-looming audience can seem a little puny regardless of the subject matter of the play.
The tree he finds however, is puny, prompting everyone to ridicule him.
I'm not sure if he actually kills anybody, but one officer definitely takes an unpleasant fall and another gets the "puny god" treatment Hulk gave Loki in by getting slammed all over the place.
It all sounds a bit puny – a single startup suing Facebook over events years in the past.
Common combinations with puny
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the puny 5×
- puny humans 3×
- look puny 2×
- puny in 2×
- puny compared 2×
- is puny 2×
- from puny 2×
- that puny 2×