Welf's wild shots sounded puny in comparison with the splintering crashes that thundered from every wall.

His screams sounded puny and thin in the heat.

He had a whistle, and he blew it once; it sounded puny and pointless.

They yelled again, but their voices sounded puny in the yard's roar.

Harry Vincent's automatic, far behind the rapid fire of his chief, delivered two blasts that sounded puny after The Shadow's fierce barrage.

His voice sounded a little puny, but otherwise he seemed OK.

These sums might sound puny by Western standards, but $7.30 is more than twice the average Pole's daily wage.

As inevitably, it sounded effete and puny to Abivard, who was less than an unbiased witness.

When the fiddle takes a chorus, it sounds puny and old - which it probably was.

That sounds puny beside the high double-digit rates that retailing analysts once expected from Radio Shack.