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How to use petite in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective, noun

Petite means fairly short and of slim build. Example: “Her bouffant suit made her seem much heavier than her petite figure actually was.”

More sentences with petite

  • Her bouffant suit made her seem much heavier than her petite figure actually was.From the entry bouffant
  • Suddenly it all came back to him, the tea, the petite madeleines, his mother.From the entry come back
  • I later found out that the cab stuffer preferred petite, ninety-pound, racktacular women, which wasn't me.2020, Holly Parker, Back on the Market: A Realtor's Guide to Love and Life, Simon and Schuster, page 169. From the entry racktacular
  • A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40. From the entry dildo
  • Potts—a petite brunette in torn boyfriend jeans, vintage peep-toe wedges, and a low-cut emerald sweater—smile-nodded at Claire.2010, Lisi Harrison, These Boots Are Made for Stalking, Poppy, →ISBN. From the entry boyfriend jeans
  • Both are petite, both wore their hair styled in a Colbert clip.2002, Milner Memos: The Monthly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of the University Library, page 9. From the entry twinsy
  • Petite with curly blonde hair and a dimpled smile.2020, Ann H. Gabhart, An Appalachian Summer, Revell, →ISBN. From the entry gawky
  • It’s not easy for a petite brunette to keep up.2014, Monica Porter, chapter 7, in Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry blondeness
  • Petite perceptions, though insensible, have an overall effect.2013, D.A. Anapolitanos, Leibniz: Representation, Continuity and the Spatiotemporal. From the entry petite perception
  • The blogshop model, 18, makes up for her petite 1.65m frame with her sharp features and megawatt smile.2012 December 12, Chow Hui Min, “Journey of a Blogshop Model”, in Temasek Polytechnic Campus newspaper: Stop Press, retrieved 31 Oct 2015. From the entry blogshop
  • Petite in the extreme, not even reaching five feet tall, Winchester at her most robust had approached one hundred pounds.2010, Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, page 196. From the entry pixie
  • Petite, with full facial makeup, Madame A is dressed fashionably as always, wearing gauchos with a matching top.2004, Sydney Molare, Grandmama's Mojo Still Working, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry gauchos
  • The mediologist busies himself with the forms of media like Marcel Proust with his petites madeleines, or Sigmund Freud with his slips.1996, Régis Debray, Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms. From the entry mediologist
  • Amidst the aseptically-perfumed bare functionality, typifying a hospital ward, a pretty and petite elfin teenage girl stirs – tawny hair all tousled and bed-headed, lips full yet petulant.2009, Garth P Toyntanen, Institutionalized 2, page 11. From the entry bed-headed
  • After all, a pill bug normally spends the sunlit hours when diurnal birds are about coiled away like a petite armadillo, often beneath some unpeckable tree stump or stone.2007 June 26, Natalie Angier, “In Parasite Survival, Ploys to Get Help From a Host”, in New York Times. From the entry unpeckable

Meaning of petite

  1. adjective Fairly short and of slim build.
  2. adjective Of small size; intended for small-framed adult women.
  3. adjective Small, little; insignificant; petty.

Full definition of petite

Questions about petite in a sentence

How do you use petite in a sentence?
Petite is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Her bouffant suit made her seem much heavier than her petite figure actually was.”
What is a short sentence with petite?
“Petite perceptions, though insensible, have an overall effect.”
What does petite mean?
Petite means fairly short and of slim build.

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