Sentence examples for a nitpick from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a nitpick" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an overly picky or trivial criticism. For example: "The audience ignored the director's nitpick and continued with the performance."
Just felt like a nitpick".
(A nitpick: John Carpenter directed "Christine," not "Carrie").
Yes, the taillight treatment is a bit garish, but that's a nitpick.
It was a nitpick on Housman's part – he was suggesting that anyone looking through liquid-filled binocular barrels would experience a blurred refraction of vision, rather than its strange sharpening.
A nitpick, for sure, but worth noting, in my opinion.
This is a bit of a nitpick, but the "double-click" you can assign to a button is pretty sluggish.
Suddenly, people who once treated Ms. Truss like a nitpicking fussbudget are taking her seriously.
Richard Benyon, the Conservative MP for Newbury, accused him of making a "nitpicking, quibbling point" and "dancing on the head of a pin".
Instead, the main national security debate involved a nitpicking controversy about whether or not troops conducting hypothetical counter-terrorism missions in post-withdrawal Iraq should (hypothetically) be based in Iraq or somewhere else.
At the risk of being a nitpicking professor, trained in the close-reading habits of a literary scholar, I would argue that it does matter.
It's a minor nitpick, but if an on-screen date or time-period had been established in the pilot, or if each flashback contained a reference to how long ago it happened compared to the day the curse took effect, ("Two Years Before Curse" perhaps?) I think the narrative would have more clarity.
