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Example sentences for "petite"

Lexicographically close words:
petiole; petioled; petioles; petis; petit; petites; petitio; petition; petitioned; petitioner
  1. Chevalier from the Castle, whom her uncle, the Cure, held as his dearest and most brilliant pupil, whose eyes always looked so lovingly into hers, and whose voice was always lavishing fond names on his petite Favette?

  2. What's up between you and la petite Adrienne, eh?

  3. It was like an eagle dancing with a linnet, or a giant with a fairy, when the big Lieutenant led out la petite Adrienne, as everybody called her.

  4. Alboni till la petite Adelina Patti came out a year or two ago; and now it is la Svengali.

  5. On the very day of his marriage, Comte Léodgard left his wife and returned to his petite maison in Rue de Bretonvilliers.

  6. More than once he had formed the plan of returning to his petite maison in Rue de Bretonvilliers; but whenever he had that idea, little Blanche was not with him.

  7. She must consent to come to my petite maison.

  8. Tom was enjoying himself immensely, and was really a good deal improved and very kind to his little wife, whom he always addressed as Petite or Madame, and who was quite a belle and a general favorite in the American colony.

  9. How I missed you, I cannot imagine; I only went to call upon la petite Jeanette, and did not stay five minutes.

  10. Give this gentleman the trunk-mail, and get yourself ready against I come back; for we have our journey to take too, you know, ma petite femme.

  11. He wishes us "bon appetit" and we seat ourselves round the table under the portraits of King Albert and "la petite reine" in his little sitting-room.

  12. But my Georges, and my Clare, and my petite Ada--I could not bear the thought that the Alboches might hurt them.

  13. Picking our way along the road in the dark, with the cannons growling away fiercely some six miles off, she tells me her "petite histoire.

  14. The petite here was lost, and thanks to the Bon Dieu I have just found her.

  15. And I would lie there, the revolver ready, if needs be, for myself and the petite both!

  16. Petite mère said it was a dreadful scene, but grand-père was much pleased with himself, and chuckled all day.

  17. Fefe having resumed his profession as soon as his bare foot was on his native heath again, the minstrels moved in a hollow square through the centre of La Petite Pologne.

  18. Now and then it would cross her mind to leave the Petite Maison Rouge to its married inmates; but for Nancy's sake she hesitated.

  19. Some ladies named Bosanquet, three sisters, with whom she had become pretty intimate, called at the Petite Maison Rouge, and carried her off to their home in the Rue Lamartine, where they had lived for years.

  20. He was very sorry for the uncomfortable position Miss Preen found herself in, and he certainly was not surprised she should wish to quit the Petite Maison Rouge if affairs could not be made more agreeable there.

  21. So at present nothing disturbed the peace of the Petite Maison Rouge.

  22. The letter brought back Captain Fennel, Flore having meanwhile remained entirely at the Petite Maison Rouge.

  23. She and Madame Carimon, going in to take tea at the Petite Maison Rouge, had been sent by its mistress to her chamber above to take off their bonnets.

  24. On Tuesday, Miss Preen was dispensing the coffee at breakfast in the Petite Maison Rouge to her sister and Mr. Fennel, when Flore came bustling in with a letter in her hand.

  25. The captain's hat, which had a wide band round it, was perpetually raised in acknowledgment of silent greetings, as he piloted his wife back to their house, the Petite Maison Rouge.

  26. David Preen had gone in first, her kinsman and distant cousin, to the Petite Maison Rouge, paving the way, as it were, for Featherston.

  27. Matters, as connected with the financial department of the Petite Maison Rouge, were known but imperfectly--to most people not known at all; so that reason was not thought of.

  28. He was at the Petite Maison Rouge almost as soon as she; his brother Emile followed him in, and Mariette, whom they had called, came shortly.

  29. The feeling might have been as unaccountable as that which came over her when she had been first entering the Petite Maison Rouge; but it was there.

  30. Thus Captain Fennel (as he was mostly called), being domiciled with the estimable ladies in the Petite Maison Rouge, grew to be considered one of the English colony of Sainteville, and was received as such.

  31. Later he removed to Rue du Dragon, nearly opposite the little street now named in his honor, and so became one of the colony of "la Petite Geneve.

  32. Nous autres l'appelons la Petite Geneve," said d'Aubigne, and that appellation held for a long time.

  33. La petite verole" is the name employed by French numismatists to designate this disease.

  34. The urban and rural district roads, covering a much greater mileage and classed as la petite voirie, are maintained chiefly by the communes under the supervision of the Minister of the Interior.

  35. On the 23rd Guizot's cabinet resigned, abandoned by the petite bourgeoisie, on whose support they thought they could depend.

  36. The Petite Chevalier appears) Wait --here's her nephew who has come to fetch you without a doubt.

  37. To love one's wife would be petite bourgoisie--nothing more absurd!

  38. But a priest's petite faute would seem to suggest the crushing down of a universe!

  39. I did think of petite marmite, but there is just a chance that Anna might fail at it, as even in Paris none but the finest chefs really succeed with petite marmite.

  40. Not that the Petite Vitesse was really to blame.

  41. It was la petite qui court toujours et qui est toujours si pressée" (the little lady who always runs and is always in such a hurry).

  42. Phillipot all alone in the maudite petite maison at Révigny.

  43. It rose dizzily to an occasion which would have been sublime but for the inhumanity of the Petite Vitesse which, lacking true appreciation of the situation, sat down upon its wheels and ceased to run.

  44. If troops are being moved from one part of the Front to another, the Petite Vitesse ceases from its labours and supplies are cut off from the town.

  45. One will only come away from this charming petite ville with the idea that, in spite of its five thousand present-day inhabitants, it is something more than a modern shrine which has been erected over a collection of ancient relics.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cramped; diminutive; dinky; exiguous; limited; little; monkey; petite; piddling; poky; puny; short; slight; small; tiny; undersized