small letter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Vanessa Bryant was the first to write a small letter to her daughter on Saturday.
From Fox News • May 1, 2021
I thought the small letter at the start might mean that nothing ever really began all new, with a capital, but that it just flowed on from what came before.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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I even did the ‘d’ in a small letter.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Figure 4.44: The major key for each key signature is shown as a capital letter; the minor key as a small letter.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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It was an unusually small letter, of course, and might have gone unnoticed in the letterbox.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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