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Example sentences for: petit

How can you use “petit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Recently, I bought a bottle of Napa's Schuetz Oles on the strength of its label alone: "Planted in the early 1960s, above Calistoga on a rattlesnake infested rocky hillside, this Petit Sirah produces a dangerously red wine," the label reads.
Let me examine five dictionaries with names in them: Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1983) [W9] 1983; Random House Webster's College Dictionary (1991) [ RHWCD ]; The American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition (1992) [ AHD 3]; Collins English Dictionary, 3rd edition (1991) [ CED 3]; and, for good measure, an ancient Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré (1958) [ PL ].
The Second Republic ended four years later when the man whom Victor Hugo called “Napoléon le Petit” staged a coup to become Emperor Napoleon III.
Example: "We're sort of like the petit jury.
*On the other hand, this is not Franglais, either: according to Petit Robert it has been standard French since 1782.