Sentence examples for then petty from inspiring English sources

Then Petty Officer Williams got a dreaded phone call.

Then Petty Officer Williams realized that he was still connected to Dinomt, short for dynamite.

There are, according to the recently launched World Superhero Registry, more than 200 men and a few women who dress up as comic-book heroes to patrol their city streets in search of... if not supervillains, then petty criminals and those in need of their help.

Then Petty's conjectured projection inequality is true for if and only if (4.9).

In the meantime, the space that was Grace became Playa, which then became Petty Cash.

Mr. Petty, then a 24-year-old country boy from Lookout Mountain, Tenn., was searching for a summer job.

As Scotty Greene, the executive director of the Buckhead Community Improvement District, put it, "With high-profile shootings, and then all the petty crimes, things were just out of control".

Born in 1910, abandoned and brought up by the state, homosexual, imprisoned for thieving at 16, sent out to join the foreign legion at 18, then imprisoned for petty crime repeatedly in the 1940s, he had at the same time produced the masterpieces that attracted the attention and solidarity of Cocteau, Sartre and André Breton.

Application of sharia law then becomes selective, petty, literalist and most importantly, inflicted on citizens in cases of morality and personal arbitrage, paying lip service to an Islamic law that has neither been happily incorporated into the modern Muslim state, nor honestly jettisoned as incompatible with the needs of that very state.

In the early 1970s, Mr. Petty, then in his mid-60s and traveling on his own, paddled his canoe (except when he had to carry it on his back) along more than 1,300 miles of rivers and streams to map the most remote regions of the park.

Instead, Poisson, then a chief petty officer, shipped out on the USS American Legion, an aging ocean liner pressed into service as a transport.