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Example sentences for "little people"

  • As the fairies were "little people," there is here no contradiction in terms.

  • It was known that those dwarfs were little people.

  • He had inherited the belief that fairies were "little people" who frequented just such places as this; consequently, he decided these were fairies.

  • To those unacquainted with the views of the realists, or euhemerists, it is necessary to explain that the popular definition of Fairies as "little people" is one which that school is quite ready to accept.

  • Besides leaving berries for the "Little People," food was set out for them on Hallowe'en, and on other occasions.

  • A dreary place would be this earth Were there no little people in it; The song of life would lose its mirth Were there no children to begin it.

  • Little people should be seen and not heard" is a stupid saying, which makes young observers shy of imparting to their elders the things that arrest their attention.

  • He wondered how they could have come there and followed them until they led him to a cave, which was full of Little People, young and old, men, women, and children.

  • I wonder whether the fragrance she will shed upon that one small parsonage will be as widely disseminated as the sweetness she exhales here, day by day, among our "little people all in a row"?

  • They could see certain details, however, for they were all one great family of little people, and it was no unaccustomed thing for them to watch a moral conquest, though they had no conception of an intellectual one.

  • It was disappointing, therefore, to hear it decided that Margaretta should drive out with Mrs Winslow, who would leave her at Aunt Hannah's, and that Susan should walk back later with Miss Pink and the little people.

  • Kuyper is a Free Trader, and the 'Little people' like cheap bread just as well as other folk.

  • It is enough for readers to know now that there were always 'little people' of that kind in Wales, and that our ancestors were very sociable and friendly with them.

  • About twenty years ago, the man who lived there used to see curious, little people, of the size that could run under a chair, walking about the house.

  • In Formosa[D] there is also a tale of little people inhabiting a wood.

  • Tales of little people are to be found in countries where there never were any Pigmy races.

  • Of all my little people, none has greater courage.

  • I suppose he has enemies just as the rest of us little people have," said Peter.

  • He has one of the most social natures of all my little people.

  • I want you to know that the Bats are among the most wonderful of all my little people.

  • There are no kilts and knee-breeches, pinafores and short skirts, to make them feel that they are little people.

  • Attached to the head of each was a silk string by which the "little people" are hung upon the wall as a decoration.

  • The first "little people" were grandchildren of Nuu, or Noah, and the big people who came after were Samoans.

  • The "little people" in the wood were his servants when he needed help.

  • The Little People Hawaiians believe in "little people" that live in deep woods and peep and snicker at travellers who pass.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little people" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    billy goat; little baby; little basket; little bell; little below; little better; little cream; little finger; little flush; little girls; little heart; little hole; little lamb; little late; little like; little lime; little pale; little place; little princess; little rough; little something; little things; little tour; little ways; little while; reasonable rates