Sentence examples for doing petty from inspiring English sources
If you're doing petty trading, you're employed.
He was a career criminal, but not a vicious one – just constantly doing petty crimes.
He took drugs, drove around the country with his girlfriend doing petty crime, and eventually wound up in prison for shooting a man while high.
Grohl describes himself and others like him as "kids who grew up in the suburbs listening to rock 'n' roll records, doing petty crime and drugs, just little vandals from the middle of nowhere".
this problem has really slowed my progress you cannot do any work, whether it is doing petty business or work in the office you cannot, because you will smell, your colleagues will smell urine, frankly it is sad (Mercy, 35 years, 6 years with fistula).
The major obstacle was the inability to control the continuous leaking urine and odour: this problem has really slowed my progress you cannot do any work, whether it is doing petty business or work in the office you cannot, because you will smell, your colleagues will smell urine, frankly it is sad (Mercy, 35 years, 6 years with fistula).
Jealousy drives even great nations to do petty things.
László Nemes's Son of Saul is the extraordinary film about Auschwitz in 1944, telling a brutal story the Sonderkommando, the inmates forced to do petty tasks and police the actual business of extermination itself – and imagines one survivor's discovery of the body of his own son.
TAP families either do petty contracts like middlemen in handling the fruits or transporting them from remote orchards to the road head, or women and girls engage in packing the fruits in the boxes.
"They did petty humiliations like cutting the window mesh so the mosquitoes would come in, cutting off the electricity, not letting us go to the bathroom," my uncle recalls.
Charles Manson was a small time criminal he did petty theft.
