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US
/ˈmɪnɪskjuɫ/
]
[ UK /mˈɪnɪskjˌuːl/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪnɪskjˌuːl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extremely small
a minuscule kitchen
a minuscule amount of rain fell
How To Use miniscule In A Sentence
- I glanced quickly to the wall of the giant diagram of the male anatomy and I was reminded that the urethra is a miniscule tube through which I had always peed. Sleepwalk With Me
- It's being asked because the figures are miniscule, going from two to four places of decimals.
- The scene in Dances with Wolves where the Souix Indians come upon the herd of slaughtered buffalo and the white man had only used miniscule parts of the buffalo. COMMENT AWARDS: PORTMAN, ANIMAL CRUELTY
- The dogs are trained to find blood-stained weapons, clothing and property, miniscule traces of blood and body fluid.
- It smelled of mothballs and camphor, the elemental scent of my homeland, and out came crumpled wads of tissue paper containing miniscule treasures.
- I was lamenting the current, miniscule McCain, a man who would take a passing -- and deeply irrelevant -- acquaintanceship between Barack Obama and Ayers, and try to make it a central issue in this absolutely crucial campaign, with the accompanying canard from the Embarracuda that Obama had "palled around" with terrorists. Ideologues in Extremis - Swampland - TIME.com
- I choose to hold the belief that every act of magic has some effect, even if it is so miniscule (or cosmic, or seemingly unrelated) as to be unobservable.
- The scientists found on the ocean floor miniscule meiofauna, single-celled creatures less than half a millimeter long, the most successful and numerous animal in the southern sea.
- Its skin was hairless and smooth and covered in miniscule, grayish brown scales.
- My cigarette smoke is miniscule compared to the pollution that clings to our innards and outers from factories and traffic and from the unseen dangers caused by radio waves or electricity.