Sentence examples for petty nuisances from inspiring English sources

If the Home Office's predictions turn out to be right, locals will gain the confidence to deal with petty nuisances themselves.

Much as he embraced domesticity, however, he relied on Nancy to relieve him of its petty nuisances, such as school and servant problems, and finding a home for his mentally ailing mother while he was out of town.

There are two ways to deal with such a situation: adopt a Zen-like calm in the hopes that everything will work out and that such petty nuisances aren't worth getting upset about, or get angry and make a scene.

The fate of the damned involves little more than petty nuisances (cold coffee), monotony (blowing bubbles for all eternity), irritation (a maestro in a room full of banjo players), rich irony (dogs carrying mailbags and picking up after themselves) and, of course, heat ("Hot enough for ya?" says one of the damned to another, with the caption, "Nerds in hell").

These interests are materially based and cause problems well beyond the petty nuisance of snoring.

Airplane noise may seem like a petty nuisance compared with drug gangs or a toxic waste dump.

Boredom is a driving force now in everything from prison riots and problem gambling to divorce and the kind of petty nuisance caused by kids during the long school holidays, when they're released from captivity only to become quickly fed up with all that freedom.

While they may appear to be only a petty public nuisance, they are part of a more noxious development — the privatization of public spaces and, ultimately, of public life.