Sentence examples for rather petite from inspiring English sources

Many were also rather petite, a characteristic that suited our mode of transportation.

And now here's my old chum Joe, old sports-mad Joe, telling me about his rather petite dress size (10).

If there's no room for that (and chances are there isn't unless you are rather petite), adjust by placing your forearms on the seat and do the same thing.

Growing up with rather petite genes, we were always taught to steer clear of clothes that overpowered us.

In "Peter Pan," at the New Victory Theater, Peter is played by a fit young man, Meyne Wyatt, rather than by a petite woman.

To age herself down Ms. Antoine, who is petite but rather curvaceous, wears her hair in youthful braids and uses binding across her chest.

(Actually, now that he mentions it, Greenfeld's sister, who is on the large side, does seem to loom rather menacingly over the petite Kometani). His wife laughs.

Petty, in this instance, comes from the French "petite" meaning small, rather than the English, meaning small-minded, bitchy and complaining, which - after listening to continual moaning on the subject for a week - nevertheless seems more appropriate.

But even though this "mezzanine-style sleeping area" seems best suited to a rather narrow rental market of petite Cirque du Soleil performers, lettings agent Alex Marks said it had received 50 to 60 inquiries about the property, due to its sought-after location half a mile from trendy Kentish Town in north London.

She is a petite, impeccably groomed and rather obdurate person with whom I had the following conversation: Aparaks: "We do sex changes, but we are not going to speak about that.

Instead I was labeled "petite".