When I examined the old Chancery files, I discovered several petitions addressed to the Petty Bag about disputes involving solicitors and court officers.

During that era, laws enforcing petty apartheid kept Black citizens from using the same public benches and restrooms as whites.

The petty officers conducted a safety drill for the new recruits on the deck.

The program aims to prevent petty crime by offering job training and counseling to at-risk youth.

The small community garden struggled to keep the beds free of petty spurge that returned each spring.

After the storm knocked out the power, we used the old petty-house behind the barn.

The old neighborhood's petty-houses were demolished to make way for a park.

Townspeople complained that the local court had been overrun by petty-foggers.

Everyone in the courthouse whispered that the defense attorney was nothing more than a petty-fogger, twisting words to win trivial victories.

The historian explained that the charge of petty treason applied when a servant murdered his master.