smaller
small or little relative to something else
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,593 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 52,161 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- small or little relative to something else also: littler
smaller in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Far ahead the smaller fry are negotiating the mark-buoy.
Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man · Bartimeus · Chapter 1
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The smaller ones filled up the intervening spaces between them.
Six Months at the Cape · R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne · Chapter 1
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He thought with a smile: Enid's smaller, but I'll bet she packs a better wallop!
Circle of Confusion · George O. (George Oliver) Smith · Chapter 1
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Beside the steps were smaller fountains with the water spurting from the mouths of stone lions.
The Haunted Fountain: A Judy Bolton Mystery · Margaret Sutton · Chapter 1
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At the forward part was a smaller plane, the deflections and inflections of which changed the angle of movement of the machine.
Frank Reade, Jr., Fighting the Terror of the Coast · Luis Senarens · Chapter 1