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Example sentences for "petit"

Lexicographically close words:
peticion; petiole; petioled; petioles; petis; petite; petites; petitio; petition; petitioned
  1. The king's corner aimed at pleasantry; it was laughed at by the 'Petit Prophete'.

  2. We had a second night's play, en petit comite, and Barbeau served us a fair dinner in a private room.

  3. The Chateau of Petit Trianon, which was built for Louis XV.

  4. Queen to a masked ball; it was agreed that the King should hold not only the grand but the petit coucher, as if actually going to bed.

  5. When the Queen stayed at Petit Trianon the passion of this unhappy man became still more annoying.

  6. A person who belonged to the Court, and was silly enough to give this report credit, wishing to visit Petit Trianon with a party, wrote to M.

  7. Two or three days afterwards the Queen sent for me to Petit Trianon, to rehearse with me the part of Rosina, which she was to perform in the "Barbier de Seville.

  8. A fete of a novel description was given at Petit Trianon.

  9. When she first took possession of Petit Trianon, it was reported that she changed the name of the seat which the King had given her, and called it Little Vienna, or Little Schoenbrunn.

  10. The Queen occasionally remained a whole month at Petit Trianon, and had established there all the ways of life in a chateau.

  11. They almost all determined to see Petit Trianon.

  12. The building and gardens are in the taste of the Petit Trianon, but inferior to it.

  13. Illustration: Ruins of the Queen's Farm-house in the Petit Trianon.

  14. By that reverse of fortune, which the revolution has familiarized, the Petit Trianon is let out by the government to a restaurateur.

  15. What do you think gives Le Petit Parisien and Le Petit Journal a circulation of about a million each and all over France?

  16. This charming labyrinth is attached to Le Petit Trianon at Versailles.

  17. But still, petit Monsieur Paul, she will not care if .

  18. There is nothing to forgive, not yet, petit Monsieur Paul.

  19. That is a great favour, truly, petit Monsieur Paul!

  20. You don't think the cher petit bébé is a little Alfred?

  21. In consequence, the Count de Valmy (for such was Mr Swinton's title) invited the ladies to a petit souper of a more substantial kind, at one of the snug refectories to be found a little farther along Piccadilly.

  22. All is in vain; petit père Alleaume remains inflexible.

  23. Will petit père Alleaume remain inflexible for four days to the request of Sophie?

  24. Torelli soon found that the newcomer commanded his hundreds where he himself could only count by scores, and he gave up the Petit Bourbon to Molière in 1659.

  25. But the best part of Petit Jehan remains a gracious sort of dream for gracious dreamers--a picture of a kind of Utopia of Feminism, when Feminism did not mean votes or anything foolish, but only adoration of the adorable.

  26. One of them is the rather famous, though probably not widely read, Petit Jehan de Saintré of the already mentioned Antoine de la Salle, a certain work of his this time.

  27. I am already so hungry that I shall begin on the petit pains.

  28. Le Petit Journal said that the man was dead.

  29. Shall we sit outside and drink a petit verre of something to give us an appetite while dinner is being prepared?

  30. After my arrival in Paris, seeing the decided success of “Petit Poucet,” it occurred to me that I should want such a play when I returned to England and the United States.

  31. While at Nantes, Bordeaux and Marseilles the General also appeared in the theatres in his French part of “Petit Poucet.

  32. As for the little General, who was accompanied by a preceptor and translator, he very soon began to give his entire speaking performances in French, and his piece “Petit Poucet” was spoken as if he were a native.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dinky; dispensable; immaterial; inappreciable; inconsequential; inconsiderable; inferior; insignificant; irrelevant; little; minor; minute; negligible; nonessential; small; technical; unessential; unimpressive


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    petite maison; petitio principii; petition against; petition from; petition signed