pint-size

Definitions

Examples

• Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.

• That year, on August 10, the first woman stepped in for a pint.

• In 2013, with a similar-size budget but more detainees, the cost worked out to about $2.7 million per detainee.

• Then make it clear that there will be no bailouts, not that there will be bailouts up to this or that size.

• The report detailed such techniques as "rectal rehydration" and the use of coffin-size confinement boxes.

• Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

• But just wishing never made anyone larger or taller, not even a pig, and Squinty stayed the same size.

• The great park which surrounded it was one of the most celebrated in all England, celebrated alike for its size and its beauty.

• All were of small size, and in good part devoted to spirited political discussion.

• A girl of forty-two weeks showed the same excitement at the sight of a life-size painting of a cat as at that of a real cat.