Sentence examples for Piddling event from inspiring English sources

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A boat show attendee of 40 years, wearing an anchor cravat, salmon cashmere scarf and a navy blue blazer, he reckoned most buyers in Hong Kong were unlikely to bother with such a piddling event.

A boat show attendee of 40 years, wearing an anchor cravat, salmon cashmere scarf, and a navy blue blazer, he reckoned most buyers in Hong Kong were unlikely to bother with such a piddling event.

The galactically useless Washington Post editorial board says that the coverage of this piddling event in the lives of Beltway elites has earned the White House a "proper comeuppance" for sequestration "hostage taking," the idea being that the shrewd reporters of Washington have seen through President Barack Obama's attempts to manufacture pain through automatic spending cuts and -- by golly!

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That is, art prices can crash only as one piddling consequence of a planetary catastrophe.

Art prices can crash only as one piddling consequence of a planetary catastrophe.

From the fertile soil of 9/11 -- itself something of a phantasmagoric event in which Osama bin Laden and his relatively feeble organization spent a piddling $400,000-$400,000-$500,000e the look of an apocalyptic moment -- sprang full-blown a sense of American global omnipotence.

One might add piddling.

I. Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work.

"It ain't like I got piddling anyway".

Workers and employers alike put piddling sums into such accounts.

I used a large syringe — why bother with piddling doses?

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