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Meanings of petite in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tiny"
Examples for "tiny"
1
The basic idea is to break the problem into tiny time steps.
2
Speech which is free is selfannihilatiing, whether in tiny or great amounts.
3
Here is the second crystal: see how tiny: yet it's all there.
4
Ten times higher than the two tiny figures working at floor level.
5
Big car companies don't target tiny minorities, they target the mass market.
1
It was the way he said his name, still using the diminutive.
2
Despite her diminutive size, she gave a good impression of fierce looming.
3
Eberhard lighted the six candles of a chandelier in his diminutive room.
4
The HP Veer is a pretty great phone, despite its diminutive appearance.
5
Lysandra stiffened at his familiar use of her name in the diminutive.
1
The midget said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
2
That midget Barrett pays the customs people off to avoid the duties.
3
Zinka was a Ukrainian midget, a dancer with the Borzoi Dance Company.
4
But excuse me, said the now jovial midget as he walked away.
5
Why not just get a midget hooker and be done with it?
1
He had intended to clean up this bantam in about a minute.
2
His blood was up and he strangely resembled a little bantam cockerel.
3
He's a brave little chap, but such a bantam one must laugh.
4
Oh, she was a little tripping Tartar of a bantam hen then.
5
But I'll soon show you down to the boat, my young bantam!
1
He felt himself bound and pricked by a thousand delicate lilliputian bonds.
2
This is a pity, as their lilliputian self-assertion is most amusing.
3
In the middle of the lilliputian ranks the giant smoke-clouds leap like hellish gods.
4
This kite system is like fitting a gigantic sail to a lilliputian boat, d'ye see?
5
The lilliputian vehicles are ubiquitous in Japan - and they would be here, if Detroit had any sense.
1
Tom looked up and saw a tiny flyspeck roaring straight down at the ship.
2
You just happened to be in that flyspeck village.
3
But it turned out that the plain-spoken presidential candidate from flyspeck Paint Creek, Texas, was all hat and no cattle.
4
Blue Hubbard) from China and the USA that exhibited sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) signs on their host substrata.
5
Fungi in the sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) complex cause blemishes on apple and pear fruit that result in economic losses for growers.
Usage of petite in English
1
In our opinion, petite and plus sizes shouldn't be considered special categories.
2
She inquired perpetually after the health of cette pauvre petite Miss Clara.
3
AA: Eve was a tiny, petite young woman with a huge heart.
4
The floor length, ivory coloured lace gown showed off Franklin's petite figure.
5
Paloma was petite and well proportioned, and the gowns were altogether charming.
6
Beside him was a petite young woman so pretty that Leesil blinked.
7
Leapfrog's petite, student-aimed portable music player takes the complexity out of entertainment.
8
The petite officer motioned for him to get up and follow her.
9
After a moment's confusion, Emma recognized the petite brunette as Stevie's psychiatrist.
10
Rosie, the petite bodyguard, was waiting for Marina in the Institute foyer.
11
She was small and petite and wore a trendy pink-and-black ruffled blouse.
12
Louise was a petite and pretty brunette who staunchly supported his innocence.
13
Five minutes later the soldiers, directed by petite maman, had reached No.
14
She was petite, and possessed a face whose fascination few could withstand.
15
Back then Angela was a pretty girl, petite, flirty, a smile-a-minute type.
16
Compared with its Parisian cousin, this gallery is on the petite side.
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Petite through the time
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common