moderate-sized

moderate-sized

adj
not large or small
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Adj.1.moderate-sized - intermediate in size
sized - having a specified size
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A moderate-sized safe stood in his bedroom, constructed so as to defy fire as well as burglars; but Passepartout found neither arms nor hunting weapons anywhere; everything betrayed the most tranquil and peaceable habits.
There are only three moderate-sized packages swinging overhead: there are only two layers of mats beneath; and the calabashes and trenchers are not so numerous, nor so tastefully stained and carved.
Bird was a timid, blushing little woman, of about four feet in height, and with mild blue eyes, and a peach-blow complexion, and the gentlest, sweetest voice in the world;--as for courage, a moderate-sized cock-turkey had been known to put her to rout at the very first gobble, and a stout house-dog, of moderate capacity, would bring her into subjection merely by a show of his teeth.
An elegant, moderate-sized house in the centre of family connexions; continual engagements among them; commanding the first society in the neighbourhood; looked up to, perhaps, as leading it even more than those of larger fortune, and turning from the cheerful round of such amusements to nothing worse than a tete-a-tete with the person one feels most agreeable in the world.
180-188 Mount Airy Road comprises two, two-story office buildings that feature moderate-sized floor plates catering to companies seeking 1,000 to 10,000 s/f of space and total 100,972 s/f as well as a historic farmhouse/residence consisting of 3,230 s/f.
The moderately strong 5.5-magnitude earthquake that struck Mindoro island last Saturday has triggered a succession of at least 400 small- to moderate-sized tremors in the Southern Tagalog region.
For example, bones in mice and humans can recover from small- to moderate-sized defects, but adult cartilage tissues possess little to no regenerative ability.
The researchers observed a significant reduction in depressive symptoms with RET, with a moderate-sized mean effect ?
Mansourasaurus, however, was moderate-sized for a titanosaur, roughly the weight of an African bull elephant.
Moderate-sized earthquakes, Solidum said, are within 5 to 6 magnitude.
Giles, a commuter pig keeper in the UK who has worked in the livestock health industry, offers a guide for people who commute to a full-time job to managing a small to moderate-sized herd of pigs on a farm.
Over-seasoned and over-cooked, the meat had the density of a moderate-sized collapsing star, the cheese was insufficient and the bun stodgy.
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