How to Use dwarf in a Sentence

dwarf

1 of 3 noun
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  • Shetland ponies are the dwarfs of the horse world.
  • Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
  • This year’s draw is Scary Snow White and the killer dwarves.
    — Mary Wakeford, azcentral, 17 Oct. 2019
  • That seven dwarves mine ride is the best one in the whole damn park.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The gnats came for the dwarf Meyer lemon tree and the burro’s tail on the balcony.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • The Milky Way hasn’t been kind to the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy.
    — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The researchers identify a K dwarf star as the most ideal in the study.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Nyx was likely once a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 July 2020
  • There was a battle for moisture, and your dwarf pine lost.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
  • Then two years ago, the school bought two Nigerian dwarf goats, Sawyer and Scout.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Rangy moose emerge from groves of dwarf trees to threaten trespassers.
    — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • This one has been traced to a small dwarf galaxy over 3 billion light-years away.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Red dwarf stars are the smallest and most abundant stars in our galaxy.
    — Fox News, 14 July 2020
  • Among the exhibits are two pigs and four dwarf buffalo.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Among the plants are dwarf palms, white flowers and a variety of shrubs, trees and grasses.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The signals come from a dwarf galaxy that's some 3 billion light-years away from Earth.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
  • The misshapen dwarf imagines that the callous little princess loves him.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • By studying the size and shape of the cloud, the astronomers say the objects involved in the space collision may have been the size of dwarf planets.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Deep snow has made much of the willows and dwarf birch that moose depend on unavailable.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • To produce such a cloud, NASA said the colliding objects must have been the size of dwarf planets.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Welsh actor plays the young dwarf with a fiery passion, deeply proud of his kingdom and loyal to his wife Disa (Sophia Nomvete).
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • For a smaller holly that deer do not eat, select the dwarf yaupon holly.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • These Nigerian dwarf goats are two years old and live in the Spaulding Children's zoo.
    — cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • And, just for good measure, the pair also has a distant companion that's an old and rare dwarf star.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
  • But the ground-hugging dwarf iris, sometimes called the rock garden iris, is among the earliest bulbs to appear in spring.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The issue is home prices in Boise dwarf residents' incomes.
    — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Type like a true dwarf with this secret language keyboard.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The dwarf and standard yaupon hollies are also not eaten by deer.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • What bothers me is when people say that dwarf planets are not planets.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2021
  • The dwarf planets Eris and Haumea are believed to be similar to Pluto in composition, with water ice on the surface.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
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dwarf

2 of 3 verb
  • An eruption of that scale would dwarf blasts like 1991's Pinatubo.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
  • But the scale of [the US Festival] just dwarfed anything else.
    — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
  • But the scant signs of progress were dwarfed by other measures.
    — Rachel Siegel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The building will soar to 563 feet, dwarfing some of its neighbors and setting a new bar as the tallest tower in the city.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The turnout then, however, was dwarfed by the numbers over this weekend.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Only 10% of the ocean floor is properly mapped, and mountain ranges and canyons dwarf even the largest warship.
    — Alexander Wooley, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Baby dwarf sperm whales are on average three to four feet long, says 2seewhales.com.
    — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The size of Hung’s trades dwarfs those that got his subordinate, who has denied any wrongdoing, in the crosshairs of the SEC.
    — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
  • Though Ola and Uber do not break down their users by vehicle type, their numbers dwarf those of Oye.
    — Simran Vaswani, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • But interest rate moves still seem to dwarf most other things on Wall Street.
    — WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But interest-rate moves still seem to dwarf most other things on Wall Street.
    — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
  • That's a black eye that dwarfs even a 59-point destruction, if that's even possible.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Nearly a dozen kids have come into the world, and with them mountains of child support that dwarf his earnings.
    — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Prosecutors have pegged the scope of the FTX fraud as high as $9 billion, which dwarfs all but the most egregious swindles.
    — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Those sums dwarf investment flows between the U.S. and China.
    — Tom Fairless, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • But the environmental calamity posed by the Safer may dwarf even the one created by the Exxon Valdez.
    — Christopher Reddy, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The sum will probably dwarf the combined spending of the other candidates in the field.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Big Oak Tree dwarfs a security guard patrolling near the clubhouse.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • The financing of that deal will, most likely, dwarf what City has offered Haaland.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • In all, The Idol is another exercise in which the outsized ambitions of a man dwarf that of a woman.
    — Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 30 June 2023
  • In all, The Idol is another exercise in which the outsized ambitions of a man dwarfs that of a woman.
    — Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 29 June 2023
  • Now comes word of another danger that could dwarf the others.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The new, and as yet unnamed concept, would dwarf even the largest superyachts in Monte Carlo’s Port Hercule harbor.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, any ticket sales will be dwarfed by the lucrative consumer products line.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But Ford’s price to earnings ratio of 12 is dwarfed by Tesla’s famously high 70.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The filings say Vice has outstanding debt of $834 million, dwarfing the amount that Vice was recently in talks to sell for.
    — Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
  • Ditto for investment, flows of which dwarf the movement of tradable goods.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • His time in the limelight dwarfs his soon-to-be opponent’s experience.
    — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The massive Eastside parking structure would be one of the largest garages in the world — eclipsing the one-time record-holding Mickey & Friends garage that would be dwarfed by comparison.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But the film’s sense of scope is no smaller for it: Shots of aircraft carriers flying across the screen like toy boats and fishing boats dwarfed by the monster’s massive head create a sense of awe-inspiring scale.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
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dwarf

3 of 3 adjective
  • The pears are mature semi-dwarf trees, a Bosc and a Bartlett.
    — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2020
  • In the world of reptiles, the dwarf gecko is both the smallest lizard and the smallest reptile.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Some are dwarf, growing only to 3 to 5 feet tall, so they would always be used as shrubs.
    — ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • And there are reasons to think planets so close to a dwarf star might lack atmospheres.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Adams invests about 3,000 hours of labor in building each dwarf car.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The specific planet observed in this case is Trappist-1b, which orbits closest in to the dwarf star Trappist-1.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Examples include the pygmy elephants of Malta, the dwarf Burmese python and even some species of dinosaur.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Last year my semi-dwarf Braeburn had scant blossoms only along the very top.
    — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Any apple variety can be a dwarf if the tree is grafted to a dwarf-sized rootstock, Mohn says.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Before 2003, the Omura's whale was thought to be simply a dwarf version of another type of whale.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2015
  • Some types become small trees; others are dwarf varieties that remain three to four feet tall and wide.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 21 July 2023
  • Beginning around six billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy named Sagittarius sideswiped the Milky Way and swung around it.
    — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
  • There are standard varieties which can grow up to 10 feet tall or dwarf varieties that reach no taller than 2-3 feet tall.
    — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Sunbelt was already planning to replace the bentgrass greens with ultra-dwarf bermudagrass in 2024.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Baby bok choy can be either a dwarf variety or a small, immature plant.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2021
  • The shortest dog ever recorded was a dwarf Yorkshire terrier in the United Kingdom.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Look for dwarf varieties that are non-invasive and won’t overtake your garden.
    — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 24 June 2022
  • The dwarf spinner dolphin, which had glowing teeth, was the only species that didn’t exhibit fluorescence on the outside of its body.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Eggplant plants can get large; look for dwarf varieties when growing in containers.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 18 July 2022
  • The Egyptian pantheon of gods included several dwarf deities.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • There were three bedrooms—easily convertible to four—and amenities such as a dishwasher and a soaker hose for the back garden (herbs, rose of Sharon, a dwarf crab-apple tree).
    — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
  • In this hands-on workshop, participants will graft and take home a semi-dwarf producing apple tree, suitable for the coastal climate.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • His great innovation was to go shorter, developing what was known as semi-dwarf wheat whose stems would not bend under the weight of larger grains.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The hope is that studying dwarf galaxies like WLM could provide more insight into how galaxies form overall.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The findings also give researchers the chance to study how dwarf galaxies form to be dimmer and wispier than previously thought possible.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
  • But most of these early explorers were in it primarily for the quest for knowledge, not for the next weeping, variegated, dwarf form of some obscure garden plant.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Sep. 2020
  • For a pink dwarf crape myrtle, the experts identified Pokomoto as a selection to consider.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 July 2018
  • Lavender and rosemary share space with dwarf Mexican bush sage, blue fescue, ‘Sunset’ manzanita, and shasta daisies.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The team estimates that Nube is a dwarf galaxy only one-tenth as bright as others of its type, yet 10 times larger than other galaxies with a comparable number of stars.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Replacing lawn grass with the usual ground covers such as Asian jasmine, dwarf Mexican petunia or mondo grass is a good way to deal with shade, save water and reduce the amount of work required to maintain the landscape.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2022

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