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Example sentences for: small-time

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Away from the scrutiny of the major media, state legislators, and McCain, kids are still learning mixed martial-arts techniques, and small-time promoters are quietly staging events.
These male figures are plotters in a dimly lit world where the CIA, corporate powers, criminals, and small-time schemers do deals, stage coups, order up murders.
Another reminder of how shoddy small-time journalism can be comes with the NYT 's report on the sudden departure of The Oklahoman 's executive editor, apparently for displeasing local behemoth the Kerr-McGee Corporation with a story about the death of Karen Silkwood, a would-be whistleblower against the company.
The owner of a dying burlesque house whose side business, the illegal numbers racket, has become his lone source of income, Nate loses a fortune to a small-time black drug dealer called Little Melvin (Orlando Jones)--a loose cannon who ultimately threatens his livelihood and his family.