How to use "smaller" in a sentence

At that point, there is a smaller canyon to the west

I'll drink at nine, midnight, three and six in the morning, but I'll take even smaller sips.

I can now only sit for a few minutes so I take smaller sips every hour.

Soon, other smaller squid came near the window

One of the smaller squid knocked the harpoon out of his hand and threw Ned down

'Why can't I get smaller?' thought Alice

'I'm getting smaller and smaller!' After a short time, she was only 25 centimetres high.

Or perhaps I'll get smaller

'I'm smaller because I've got the hat in my hand!' she thought.

'Am I smaller than the table now?' she wondered

She was smaller than the table

'I'm getting smaller all the time!' she cried

First I get larger, then I get smaller, then larger..

Then she thought, 'I'll eat it and perhaps I'll get smaller again

Sometimes I get bigger and then I get smaller again.'

Eat from that brown mushroom there and you'll get smaller,' it said

She started to get smaller

We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one

One was tall and thin, the other smaller

As he was walking by the smaller barricade, his thoughts were interrupted by a weak voice calling his name from the shadows.

The ground floor of the wine shop became a hospital for the wounded, and the bodies of the dead were taken to an alley near the smaller of the two barricades

As other guns began firing at the smaller barricade, the rebels fought back bravely, but they were running out of bullets

Only Marius, looking over his shoulder, saw them cross the stronghold towards the smaller barricade

At the foot of the smaller barricade, half-hidden by broken stones and pieces of wood, there was a hole in the road covered with an iron grille

For five minutes Oliver rows, and soon the jetty and the hotel look much smaller, while the attendant is almost impossible to see in the half-light of the new evening.

It was a bit smaller than Sala's, with no windows - and no garden either, of course

The model airplanes slowed, swinging in smaller and smaller circles, until they finally hung motionless.

"Bob here"-he indicated the smaller man-"has the neatest set of tools

When Elliot refused to move away from the sink to the breakfast table in the far corner of the big kitchen, Bob, the smaller of the two men, hesitated, then reluctantly took a step toward him.

Because it was important for the men who worked in the large room to have an unobstructed view of the smaller inner chamber at all times, four angled ceiling vents in both rooms bathed the glass in a continuous flow of warm, dry air to prevent condensation and clouding

The cold spell won't last." He squinted into the smaller room, where the boy lay motionless on a hospital bed, under a white sheet and yellow blanket, trailing monitor wires

These diplomatic and intelligence-gathering assignments were never an insult to his family name, but they were always minor postings to embassies in smaller countries like Iceland and Ecuador and Tonga, nothing for which The New York Times would deign to acknowledge his existence.

She said, "I was scared." And Danny said, "I made the holes in the walls smaller

It was also not generally understood that because Mars is older and smaller than our Earth, and further from the sun, it is nearer life's end as well as further from its beginning.

Its air is much thinner than ours, its oceans have become smaller until they cover only a third of its surface, and from its far north and south the ice is steadily moving forwards

The figure of the Martian grew smaller as it moved away, and soon it was hidden by the mist and the coming night

The little ship my brother was on continued to move out to sea, and the warships became smaller in the distance.

It grew smaller, sank slowly and disappeared again into the night

Families became smaller.