Preposition: by

• comparison: With the rest of the runners and riders looking puny by comparison ( John Hutton anyone?

Used with adjective complement

• look: Jubilee's candle fans make my cat 3 attempts look puny.

• seem: It makes our little lives on earth seem puny.

• feel: Eat out at the problem is body felt puny.

Modifies a noun

• creature: Once you have any kind of weapon, you might start looking for small, puny creatures to kill for XP.

• mind: I know your puny little mind can't comprehend anything that's beyond your nose.

• effort: Many were our regrets that we had no dynamite handy for a grander display than our puny personal efforts would command.

• human: But what pleasure is there in seeing a puny human mangled by a powerful beast or a splendid animal killed with a hunting spear.

• body: A rugby style conversion is good or perhaps just hover your foot over as it crashes down inches from its puny body.

• man: He was a puny, skinny man wearing National Health spectacles.

Modifying Another Word

• too: It had become too small, too puny, too weak a word for him.

• so: The human race is so puny compared to the universe that being disabled is not of much cosmic significance.

• relatively: When the first hydraulic excavators appeared they were relatively puny affairs with small buckets and a short reach.

• pretty: Firstly, although we have incisors, they are pretty puny compared to other animals.

• comparatively: This is comparatively puny slice, the potential for harm from radiation increases with frequency.

• positively: And as for his canon of quality pictures, well, it's positively puny.

Preposition: in

• comparison: Didn't they make most of our lads look puny in comparison?