Sentence examples for petty things from inspiring English sources

"They're about petty things".

So many petty things spoiled the picture of world domination.

Jealousy drives even great nations to do petty things.

"I didn't see anything bad in him — not even little petty things," he said.

As he perceptively observed: "Sam is a puritan with no interest in petty things.

I have never heard so much grumbling and growling about so many petty things like meals.

There were very simple rules: you share all your publishing and you don't fight about petty things and it's democratic.

"I like the fact that my rage goes into bigger things, not into small, petty things with people around me," she says.

"I've been here seven or eight presidents. . . but I haven't seen any do as many petty things as this president does," Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt). said.

Pragmatism, and a sense that they really were above such petty things, seems to have kept the two women sane, and quite probably the band together.

"People have been putting the petty things behind them," he said, "because we've seen that such a bad thing could happen on such a grand scale.