The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Sweet,peaceful stars filled the sky as the night birds sang softly, and tiny insects buzzed in the soft air.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Behind her,in the little room over the porch, a tiny clock ticked loudly on its shelf near the end of the bed.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

For example, you can add sand to prevent tiny breaks or lines from forming in the finished product.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

She reached the blanket just in time to see the weasel run off with a tiny rain baby hanging from its mouth.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The Kepler space telescope looks for planets by measuring tiny decreases in the brightness of stars when planets cross in front of them.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

They would fly four thousand kilometers to tiny Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

The tiny dark dots in vanilla ice cream are from the seedpods of the vanilla orchid.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

He was describing the child Tiny Tim in the book "A Christmas Carol."

VOA: special.2010.06.06

The tissue is made into tiny pieces and grown in a laboratory.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Tiny insects likely play a big part in spreading the viruses.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

The man charged with numerous counts of terrorism was born in this tiny northwestern village known as Mohib Banda.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

He swirls the tin pan and a tiny amount of gold glints in the sunlight.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The device is a tiny sensor, implanted through a catheter in the heart's pulmonary artery.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

But Mr.Obama's critics point out that the $100 million in cost cutting is miniscule - just a tiny fraction of one percent of the federal budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

"Shopping centers are huge in China. Fifty-thousand square meters is considered a tiny shopping center, which anywhere else in the world is considered a pretty significant center."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06