What is "pint-size"

Usage examples of "pint-size".

Their kitchen was a percolator, a two-burner electric stove, and a pint-sized electric icebox in the bathroom, and their dining-room did not for the moment exist, since it was a folding card-table stowed under the bed.

By the age of five, the pint-sized prodigy was apprenticed to Signor Blitz, the greatest of all the magicians in the world, and by his twelfth year, the precocious prestidigitator was the favorite of the sultans and sheiks of far-away lands.

Morgana wanted, through a combination of charm and pint-sized bullheadedness, she got.

The Bat was shorter than Oscar, more kind of pint-sized, very ratty and low-rent, with long Brylcreem greaseball hair swept back in hoodlum waves, and this brown mole just to the right of his nose.

The country citizens of this pint-sized planet were foregathering and cluttering fearfully while they waited for the bigwigs from the city to get here and do something about the sudden giant.

A porter threw open the door to his office and stood right in front of the pint-sized Bor-rible.

But we had a house that would keep off the rain, and a pint-sized cow barn as well, even if I didn't own a cow.

The Kub, a midget jet plane, was one of two pint-sized aircraft carried in the vast cargo hold of the Flying Lab.

The dressing-table was crowded with pint-size bottles of Lanvin, Millot and Givenchy, torn pieces of cotton wool, gold hair-brushes, cleansing cream, half a cup of cold coffee, witch hazel, skin food, hand lotion, roll-on deodorant, scissors, tweezers, six different nail polishes, seven bright bottles of eye make-up from green to mauve, a capsule containing silver paint and a large bowl full of beads and bracelets.

Adding insult to almost incomparable injury, the diminutive cutthroat and brown trout (an eight-inch fish was a monster) that lived hi these waters were so spooky and wild that stalking prong-horned antelopes and mountain sheep was child's play compared to approaching these pint-sized fish.

The first tanker would not be so equipped, but the second tanker through its robot would smell out the first and home on it with a pint-sized rocket engine, using the smallest of vectors to bring them together.

The first tanker would not be so equipped, but th~ second tanker through its robot would smell out the first and home on it with a pint-sized rocket engine, using the smallest of vectors to bring them together.

Jim Bob drove up in what had been a pint-size school bus but was now painted pastel blue and emblazoned with lettering that proclaimed it to be FLY BY NIGHT DRY CLEANING: YOUR STAIN IS OUR PAIN.

Feet planted far apart, this pint-sized Zorro, no less than Destiny's Tot, stared at the three remaining teddy boys with eyes that could have triggered an A-bomb.