PETITE in a Sentence

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For PETITE, below is one of 53 sentences:
She had obtained private intelligence that Mr. Darcy did not wish for cards; and Mr. Hurst soon found even his open petition rejected.

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 Meanings and Examples of PETITE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
petite
 a.  short and having a small, trim figure, of a woman; very small
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Everybody laughed at them, for Tamoszius was petite and frail, and Marija could have picked him up and carried him off under one arm.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  But what I say is," he said, turning to Rostov, "it would be best simply to petition the Emperor for pardon.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVIII
3  The auditor wrote out a petition for you," continued Tushin, "and you ought to sign it and ask this gentleman to take it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVIII
4  In it was the petition to the Emperor drawn up by the auditor, in which Denisov, without alluding to the offenses of the commissariat officials, simply asked for pardon.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVIII
5  Rostov had come to Tilsit the day least suitable for a petition on Denisov's behalf.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
6  "To hand in a letter, a petition, to His Majesty," said Nicholas, with a tremor in his voice.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
7  Petya no longer thought of presenting his petition.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXI
8  Get up, and don't be a goose, Jo, was the cavalier reply to her petition.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
9  Every one was speechless with surprise at seeing a man there, but Ulysses began at once with his petition.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VII
10  She had obtained private intelligence that Mr. Darcy did not wish for cards; and Mr. Hurst soon found even his open petition rejected.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  He had the cunning to unlock and re-lock the door, without shutting it; and when he should have gone to bed, he begged to sleep with Hareton, and his petition was granted for once.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Villefort dictated a petition, in which, from an excellent intention, no doubt, Dantes' patriotic services were exaggerated, and he was made out one of the most active agents of Napoleon's return.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
13  The petition finished, Villefort read it aloud.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
14  This petition to Napoleon, kept back by Villefort, had become, under the second restoration, a terrible weapon against him in the hands of the king's attorney.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
15  Mr. Micawber had stated his idea of this petition to the club, and the club had strongly approved of the same.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
Example Sentence:
1  Councillors were presented with a petition calling for more money to be spent on policing the area.
2  All the attempts to petition the Congress had failed.
3  I signed a petition against the proposed closure of the local hospital today.
4  The workers are getting up a petition for tighter safety standards.
5  They wanted me to sign a petition against experiments on animals.
6  People donate money, put their names to a petition urging governments to do more to fight AIDS.
7  This funeral stopped the further growth of one thing -- the petition to the governor for Injun Joe's pardon.
8  She is convinced that he will abandon her once he gets his green card because he is having an extramarital affair, so my sister wants to drop him from the petition.
9  She harried the authorities, writing letters and getting up petitions.
10  The group circulated petitions calling for a federal law to ban handguns.
11  Tokyo was plunged into two "lost" decades of stagnation after it prevented zombie companies from declaring bankruptcy – even blocking petitions from bondholders in the courts - when a property collapse exposed debts many times the value of their businesses.
12  He petitioned for a retrial in camera.
13  They petitioned the government to reduce taxes.
14  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.