How to Use wee in a Sentence

wee

adjective
Definition of weenext
Synonyms for weenext
  • He's just a wee lad.
  • Joining them soon will be a Czech lager and a wee heavy.
    — Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2020
  • Some bone lovers believe that the wee bits gnawed off the bone are the best, the sweetest bits of all.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
  • Here's why getting to bed in the wee hours may—or may not—be bad for your health.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The six-minute clip dropped during the wee hours of the morning and starred his son Adonis.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Parents pay about $35 per ticket, and the wee ones are free.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The bidding war started that night and went into the wee hours of the morning.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2024
  • But the oil, gas, fracking boom has leveled off a wee bit.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The incident happened in the wee film-noir hours of a party in 1960.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 July 2024
  • Also, the set has 40 steel marbles, so keep it away from any wee ones.
    — Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • In the thick of it all is Egg Harbor, a wee town of just 252 full-time residents.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2021
  • There’s even a wee bit of white chocolate floating in the background.
    — Michael Alberty, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
  • At this point, the sexcapades of Fifty Shades Of Grey are starting to feel a wee bit tired.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • There’s pop to eat your breakfast to, pop for heaving house parties in the wee hours.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Then the Cell2Jack will light up and become a wee Bluetooth hub for linking up to your cell.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • In the wee hours of April 2, the night sky in Southern California lit up.
    — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The singer was a wee man, not even five foot five, all bone and sinew, maybe ninety pounds dressed for winter.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 12 May 2021
  • And the fearsome wind, which along with the bunkers is the great defense of the Old Course, is forecast to be a little more than a wee breeze.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 14 July 2022
  • Then the county was hit by the first in a series of strong quakes, a magnitude 6.4 temblor in the wee hours of Dec. 20.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • The snowplow driver who cleared the area around the house in the wee hours of January 29th didn’t see O’Keefe, either.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • In the wee hours of Monday morning, the heart emojis returned.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • At a quarter to midnight, Pen bolts from the room to have a wee little breakdown.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 June 2024
  • Protesters showed up on his lawn in the wee hours one morning.
    — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Kuhn spends the wee hours of the morning circling a small metal vat roughly the size of a baby’s crib.
    — Jacqueline Kehoe, Saveur, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Just about anything can fill a tassie’s wee pastry crust.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Hikers typically start in the wee hours to make it to the top in time for sunrise.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 1 July 2024
  • But wee moons, it was thought, should have lost their meager embers long ago.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Daryl first meets him as a wee puppy who gives him some good-boy face licks and then scampers away.
    — Richard Rys, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Our day starts at 5 a.m., with one child off to a before-school sports practice, and two others rising in the wee hours to catch the painfully early middle school bus.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Perseid meteors also tend to increase in numbers as in the wee hours of the morning, so it is often best viewed just before dawn.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 July 2024

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