Example sentences for: petit

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

  • For most Italians, particularly the peasant, worker, and petit bourgeois, war in uniform was their first real experience of Italian nationality.

  • benthos Neither an English social philosopher nor a petit bourgeois weepy feeling, but the bottom of the sea and by extension its flora and fauna.

  • *On the other hand, this is not Franglais, either: according to Petit Robert it has been standard French since 1782.

  • The château is open Tuesday–Sunday 9am–6:30pm (winter 5:30pm); the Grand and Petit Trianon Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6:30pm (Tuesday–Friday 10am–12:30pm and 2–5:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am–5:30pm in winter); the gardens Tuesday–Sunday 7am to sunset.

  • 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 ].


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