Sentence examples for as petite from inspiring English sources

She is as petite as the men are brawny.

Even with the benefit of a pair of medium-heeled loafers he is as petite as legend maintains.

Violent tendencies are also subdued by the works' precious scale: no bigger than 24 by 18 inches, with some as petite as 12 by 9.

Ms. Bogert, as petite as her cottage, spends her free time reading, cooking, listening to National Public Radio or tending her miniature herb garden and her fig tree and lemon tree.

The problem, though, is that if you start with four doors and two rows of seats, adding a large and truly useful cargo bed makes a truck about as petite and agile as a Greyhound bus.

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Couture garments are one-of-a-kind, handmade pieces sewn by the highly skilled seamstresses known as petites mains.

The number of true couture designers has dwindled over the last few decades, and so have the ranks of the artisans, known as "petites mains," upon whom they rely.

Silver-spired churches towered above hamlets named for a roll call of saints such as Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, whose tiny station sits at the base of Le Massif, my favorite downhill ski mountain and the highest vertical drop east of the Canadian Rockies.

After a quick study of radiology, anatomy, and automotive mechanics she procured X-ray equipment, vehicles, auxiliary generators, and developed mobile radiography units, which came to be popularly known as petites Curies ("Little Curies").

In mutants known as "petite-negative," loss of mitochondrial DNA is a lethal event (Bulder 1964; Chen and Clark-Walker 2000) because of the incapacity of the cell to maintain a viable level of mitochondrial membrane potential.