Sentence examples for petty that from inspiring English sources

Of all the disputes great and petty that have marred relations between Russia and the United States over the years, chicken has provoked more than its share of angst and animosity.

Academia can be petty that way.

You know, the Johnsons never did have us to the White House, but we weren't petty that way.

He's the one that chose to make a brief encounter about something petty that showed his thin skin.

Washington DC is already so fractious and petty that if politicians realize they're all part of the big family, that couldn't make things any worse, right?

These were the wretched rags of resentment so bitter and old, so petty, that I had been too ashamed even to mention them in therapy, so now I balled them up and tossed them onto Denis's court.

It was, in the end, the petty cruelties that came with the South Lebanon Army's petty power over other Lebanese that are remembered with the deepest anger.

It's too petty for that.

"All the petty differences that consume us in normal times somehow melt away.

He has abolished a few of the many petty restrictions that pervade Cubans' lives.

He has dropped some of the petty restrictions that irritate Cubans.