Sample sentences for INFINITESIMAL

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Definition

very tiny; or immeasurably small

So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

She had been an infinitesimal atom of inert something that had quickened to life under the blazing magic of the sun.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
The universe, he once thought, may well be made up of infinitesimal pieces of string, in thirty-two different colors.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Their little sounds, as they approached his father, vanished upon it like the infinitesimal whisperings of snow, falling on open water.
James Agee -- A Death in the Family
Nevertheless, after the most infinitesimal of pauses, she shook her head.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
Then a blade of thought, honed to an infinitesimal point, pierced Eragon's consciousness and sheathed itself in the marrow of his being.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
When Max finally managed a nod—a mere infinitesimal dip of his head—the Agent's blue eyes blazed.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
The odds of seeing it were infinitesimal, but she stayed out anyway, growing chilled as the evening deepened.
Nicholas Sparks -- Nights in Rodanthe
His weight shifted infinitesimally, and I could see that he was preparing to fight.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
I see the girls moving so very slowly, their hair ribbons defying gravity as they turn their heads by infinitesimal degrees.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
His eyebrows moved an infinitesimal bit, then his lips.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
She shakes her head, an infinitesimal gesture.
Lauren Oliver -- Before I Fall
An infinitesimal change.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
His shrinking was so infinitesimal, so slow and so sly, that no one other than himself had noticed it.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
So there simply are no odds whatsoever that two could have come through it, none, not even an infinitesimal chance.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
His head shook infinitesimally.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
By infinitesimal degrees the dark cloud-line merged upward into the golden-red haze of the afterglow of sunset.
Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
You miss an infinitesimal line and you can build it into a pyramid of evidence!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

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