How to Use bantam in a Sentence

bantam

noun

• One of the nests has been taken over by our little bantam hen.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 12 May 2023
• In the years that followed, that little chick grew up to become a healthy adult bantam hen named Peanut.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• Finley is a 6th overall bantam pick who played in his first game Friday.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• And for decades, one bantam-sized tailor has outfitted more than his share of hulking hockey stars. Giovanni Vacca, 86, stands about 5-foot-5 and sports a black suit, V-neck sweater and dress shirt.
  — Salim Valji, New York Times, 10 June 2019
• Even though this circular haven is bantam in size, there are plenty of things to do to keep you tickled during your visit.
  — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• The punches were delivered with the force of a featherweight and a couple bantams.
  — Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
• There were large chickens, Asiatic chickens, and game bantams.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
• Many layer, broiler, and dual-purpose breeds are available as standards or bantams.
  — Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
• Many layer, broiler, and dual-purpose breeds are available as standards or bantams.
  — Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
• Years before, Meade had played for Monte with the Chicago Blues at the bantam level.
  — Jon J. Kerr, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• An officer responding to a report of a chicken running through an intersection was able to capture the black bantam rooster.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2017
• The grand champion and reserve grand champion for chicken, duck, turkey and bantam eggs will be sold at Friday’s livestock auction.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
• These bantam stars were considered unlikely to host many close-in planets — worlds that orbit near enough to their suns to receive sufficient energy to sustain life.
  — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2019
• They were inextricably linked through sports, even if their two-year age gap meant Smith, now 26, was just a pewee when McLain was a bantam.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2022
• His voice, clipped and nasal, had a bantam toughness, and his sentences (in life, not literature) make regular detours from formidable erudition into the slangy and profane.
  — Mark Binelli, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• Eventually, ispace aims to set up a robotic lunar transportation service and use its bantam rovers to identify and help exploit the resources available on Earth's nearest neighbor, such as water ice.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
• Ross Perot, the bantam-weight third-party candidate of the 1990s, who exuded excessive confidence in the eternal wisdom of his every utterance.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
• If all goes according to plan, these bantam pioneers will get up-close looks at Proxima b, the possibly habitable planet that circles the sun's nearest star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2018
• Kleven, a defenseman, played bantam at Woodbury Area Hockey Club as a freshman, and then played two years of junior varsity at East Ridge, Vogelgesang said.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2025
• Growing up in the Chaska-Chanhassen youth hockey system, Heil left home after bantams to play AAA hockey in South Dakota, then moved up to the USHL, first in Sioux Falls and now in his second season with Madison.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2025