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Example sentences for "pettifoggers"

Lexicographically close words:
petticoated; petticoats; pettier; pettiest; pettifogger; pettifogging; pettiness; pettinesses; petting; pettish
  1. One of them when he saw the pettifoggers putting their heads together, and lamenting their sad lot, up comes he and says: "Did not I tell you the Saturnalia could not last for ever?

  2. Agatho and a few pettifoggers were weeping for grief, and for once in a way they meant it.

  3. One of the group of pettifoggers sitting behind him leaned forward, touched him on the shoulder, and murmured: "You'd better tell his name.

  4. The perky clerks and smirking pettifoggers move apart on tiptoe, those to their respective stations, these to their privileged seats facing the high dais.

  5. What is going on now in Pettifoggers Street, your Excellency?

  6. Then they began to urge the peasant: Take them, take them to Pettifoggers Street!

  7. And we are Generals from Pettifoggers Street, you know!

  8. The peasant, it appeared, even knew all about Pettifoggers Street; had been there; his mouth had watered at it, but he had not had a taste of it!

  9. At last, behold Mother Nevá, and the splendid Katherine Canal, and great Pettifoggers Street!

  10. If we only had such fish in Pettifoggers Street!


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pettifoggers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.