Sentence examples for petty troubles from inspiring English sources

What has emerged is a moving gated community, protection hired by the hour or kept on retainer that is supposed to solve petty troubles or the most urgent crisis.

It was something for people to talk about: a way of filling up space in their lives with their petty troubles and unimportant worries.

He was only 21, but he was already in trouble -- in petty trouble with the law, in big trouble at home.

Their mother has rebelled against her mother's privileged country-club life on Long Island, while their Harvard-educated father, who hails from a family of New England eccentrics, seems to regard petty trouble-making as a philosophical stance toward the world.

Petty's troubles over the last few years have mirrored those of the sport itself.

Petty's trouble started in 2008.

Nearly half of households have incomes below the poverty line, and many areas are troubled by petty crime and drug trafficking.

Offering moderate use as a first step, some therapists say, is the only way of "meeting people where they are," and getting them down to a level of use that keeps them from driving under the influence, petty crime or other trouble.

Frenemies Perry and Baby Girl are pretty different, aside from their shared interest in driving around and stirring up mostly innocuous trouble -- petty theft is their go-to time-killer.

A girl likes a guy who is not troubled by petty things.

Once confronted with facts, they will try to pull a Jedi Mind Trick on you by calling you crazy, stupid, psycho, insecure, childish, petty, ridiculous, looking for trouble or trying to start something.