small wonder

phrase

—used to say that something is not surprising

Small wonder that we're lost, since we didn't ask for directions.

Examples of small wonder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Kelly’s famous engagement ring is no small wonder. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026

After all that, small wonder the sailors have renamed it ‘Crashnitz’. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025

Research from Japan suggests that 7-OH may be 13 times as powerful as morphine; small wonder that more than half of regular kratom users, per one study, experience severe dependency. — Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

Clearly both companies see a bright future in home goods, and small wonder. — Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

The cream has a loyal following of celebrities, which is no small wonder. — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 30 July 2025

Given today’s global economic and geostrategic uncertainty, its small wonder CEO turnover, which reached record heights in 2024, continues into 2025*. — Paul Laudicina, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025

Often the elaboration is clearly a product of environment—small wonder that Arabic, Farsi and Indigenous Australian languages abound with words to describe the desert, and Sanskrit, Tamil and Thai with words for elephants. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 9 May 2025

Rhymes for small wonder

• asunder
• blunder
• bunder
• funder
• plunder
• sunder
• thunder
• under