How to Use small-bore in a Sentence

small-bore

adjective

• An all-new small-bore V-twin cruiser.
  — New Atlas, 11 May 2026
• Given the scale of Epstein’s crimes, highlighting due-process concerns can feel small-bore, or even like apologism.
  — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
• Still, there’s nothing small-bore about consumer socialists’ desire to overhaul the economy.
  — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
• All in a country that already produces a ton of motorcycles every year – most of which are affordable, small-bore city commuters.
  — New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
• CFMoto Next up, the 450SS small-bore parallel-twin sportbike.
  — New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
• The Kremlin leader makes sweeping pronouncements about the current global order, interspersed with small-bore questions from local journalists about the quality of roads in the Komi Republic.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025