Minuscule

//ˈmɪnɪˌskjuːl//

"Minuscule" in a Sentence (8 examples)

The amount of arsenic in the water is minuscule but significant.

The difference is minuscule at best.

The thrust of this spacecraft is minuscule.

The tree is much too large for Ziri's minuscule axe.

Cockroach eggs are minuscule.

By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.

a minuscule dot

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

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