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US
/pəˈtit/
]
[ UK /pətˈiːt/ ]
[ UK /pətˈiːt/ ]
NOUN
- a garment size for short or slender women
ADJECTIVE
-
very small
the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
diminutive in stature
her petite figure
tiny feet
a lilliputian chest of drawers
How To Use petite In A Sentence
- Mulvey also has an insatiable appetite for collaboration, appearing on colleagues' recordings, or just stepping on stage with other artists to try something spontaneous, something unrehearsed.
- Loss of appetite is a symptom of mountain sickness. Times, Sunday Times
- The crisp dynamic shifts and organized flourishes whet your appetite for more of the same, especially during the radiant synth pinwheels of the chorus.
- She cloyed her appetite with rich food.
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
- Another one is control of our bodily appetites and thoughts, which we're not so good at, these days.
- I do think one of the downfalls of diet drugs and appetite suppressants is that they still don't teach you how to eat.
- There should be plenty of thunder left in the powerful arms and lower body he has developed since arriving in America as an underfed teenager with bright eyes and a voracious appetite for success.
- She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors