Sentence examples for petty material from inspiring English sources

"But coming up here you realize how petty material possessions can be".

Sometimes seeing people be petty about material items, parking spots, long waits in line, etc. can send you over the edge especially this time of the year.

It was mostly petty stuff.

"These materials verge on petty hooliganism," Mr. Usmanov told Gazeta.ru, a news Web site that is also part of his media holdings.

"I make out like a petty thief, come home, write new material and go out again".

The small-size and the enormous diversity of variants that can be fused to the bacteriophage capsid make bacteriophage ideal candidates for many applications across all industries including targeted therapy and detection in medicine to conjugation with macromolecules, plant science and nanoparticles in materials science (Willats 2002; Petty et al. 2007).

Workers placed a boom on the surface of the water to contain the oil, added absorbent materials and notified the authorities, Petty Officer Swanson said.

Space is the place where humans can roam free of petty earthly preoccupations such as celebrity worship, social media and material possessions (presumably including swimming pools, trophy wives and one-sided record-company deals).

We really get to see him be petty and anal and hypocritical and it's my favorite Doug material certainly so far.

Some of Mr. Quinn's funniest material is the kind of casual, offbeat commentary about the petty quirks of everyday behavior today that Mr. Seinfeld specialized in.

(Reviewing the Off Broadway production for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote, "Some of Mr. Quinn's funniest material is the kind of casual, offbeat commentary about the petty quirks of everyday behavior today that Mr. Seinfeld specialized in").