Preposition: of

• litter: She wasn't expected to live being the runt of the litter.

• man: He was a runt of a man with a nasal whine that could drive anyone to distraction.

Converse of object

• call: The smallest one of the litter was called the runt.

• look: It makes our UK think-tanks look the runts of the litter.

Adjective modifier

• little: He was a little runt who probably got picked on at school, nobody liked him.

• skinny: I was suspicious of the skinny little runt for the outset.

• fat: I find it strange the way Morgan Webster, the fat little runt they have the sense of humor to call a singer.

• irrelevant: Or will he simply ignore the pleas of the man recently branded an " irrelevant runt " ?

• small: I should also mention that there were 17 of them including one extremely small runt.

Modifies a noun

• pig: The muscles of runt pigs are smaller than those of their more successful littermates.