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55 example sentences for PETTY, such as:
1. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers.
2. For many great deeds are performed in petty combats.
3. It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery.
4. The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
5. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and petty.
2. For many great deeds are performed in petty combats.
3. It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery.
4. The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
5. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and petty.
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Meanings and Examples of PETTY
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petty
a. trivial; of small importance; very small
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 Those are dangers from without, petty dangers.
2 The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3 He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, combats the inexhaustible.
4 And then, there still remained some petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting the bills for them, etc.
5 He flung in the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed tradesmen.
6 Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur of its own.
7 There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic dramas.
8 His name was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study of the Middle Ages.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
9 For many great deeds are performed in petty combats.
10 It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery.
11 Only, in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful.
12 This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and petty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
13 Besides, I long ago determined to put an end to all these petty intrigues of policy and love.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
14 The nobles themselves, each fortified within his own castle, and playing the petty sovereign over his own dominions, were the leaders of bands scarce less lawless and oppressive than those of the avowed depredators.
15 But his petty vanity was sufficiently gratified by receiving this homage at the hands of his immediate attendants, and of the Saxons who approached him.
Example Sentence:
1 His administration was plagued by one petty scandal after another, cumulatively very damaging.
2 It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
3 He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things.
4 Big business will never let petty nationalism get in the way of a good deal.
5 She had no major complaints to his work, only a few petty issues that were almost too minor to state.
6 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.