| 1. | He fell upon it and tore it into infinitesimal pieces. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential but so infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 4. | "Dear me, how annoying," said the blonde matron, but the brunette matron still stared, without the slightest trace of interest in anything else, at the infinitesimal spot she had selected on the affronting window-shade. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 5. | As a philosopher he knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part of any person's desires has been realised. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |