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an opportunity for complaint that is seldom missed
grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve
How To Use pet peeve In A Sentence
- I am occasionally asked to do a talk on the Gothic, and one of my pet peeves is the continual process of making the other safe. Howard Hughes vs. the Amazon Sales Rank
- One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing people - whether they're on foot, on a bike, in a car, or in a horse and buggy - who sleepwalk their way through life without any awareness of their effect on other people. Tragic Death on Cedar River Trail « PubliCola
- One of my pet peeves is when a judge isn't paying attention. Judge To Other Judges: Shut Up And Listen
- One of my pet peeves is that people confuse "professional" with "expert". Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia
- As a long-time user of the IBM Rational Rose tool, my pet peeve with the tool has always been its usability.
- One of MY pet peeves is the misuse of statistical tidbits, often incomplete, out of context, and/or inaccurate when one examines them, which then gets people believing things that just are not true. Wonk Room » Elizabeth Edwards: $1 Of Every $700 Went To Pay Salary Of UnitedHealth CEO
- The title touched on one of my pet peeves: the equation of 'baseball' with 'major league 'baseball'. Languagehat.com: THE END OF BASEBALL IN FRENCH.
- In general, I found the Crafty Chica book fairly amenable to the use of recycled materials, and not too reliant on non-natural materials like fusible interfacing, which is nice my pet peeve is how so many projects that incorporate T-shirts instruct the usage of fusible interfacing. Crafty Green Book Review: Crafty Chica’s Guide to Artful Sewing
- Pet peeve: The word nipple was used far too often! Review: Mistik Lake
- So when two cyclists - one of my other pet peeves - cut him off by riding two abreast, I kindly offered to open the passenger door and clean them up for him.