Sentence examples for petite to be from inspiring English sources

I mean, in public?" Another parishioner told me I was too petite to be a priest.

Drone-shot in property-supplement Shropshire, High Wycombe and Knebworth, there are "allurements" aplenty in this super-bucolic slice of 19th-century parish life: bustled women moving around as if on castors; rooms with at least one tiger skin rug; and parasols petite enough to be floating in cocktails.

This does not mean skintight, but you don't want your petite frame to be hidden by layers of extra cloth - this will just make you look shorter and wider.

Petite sirah tends to be pretty dense, but so are many top syrahs.

Hand-bound in crimson French silk, the petite tome — not to be confused with the more lascivious "Guide des jolies femmes de Paris" recently written by a speechwriter in President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration — is a love letter to all those forgotten members of the world's oldest profession.

According to "The Petite Handbook," a fashion guide by Kim Williams Dahlman, to be certifiably petite, a woman has to be 5 feet 4 inches or under, though in the current crop of heroines, many are petite — and young — in spirit only.

For a time, petite sirah was said to be a lesser French variety called durif.

As a young woman, the petite Ms. Dessay studied to be a dancer and actress.

This musical petite mort almost proved to be a career climax as well.

Often, growers who thought they had been producing syrah discovered it to be petite sirah when they did scientific testing.

I've always had a broader figure than other girls, sadly, much as I've always wanted to be petite.