Sentence examples for piddling from high-quality English sources.

• One is a piddling $20m.

• But I'd be piddling myself laughing and couldn't get myself together, meaning there were many retakes.

• What’s particularly baffling is that Syria now produces a piddling amount of oil—about as much as Utah.

• With its long marble bar, piddling five tables and menu of choice Italian nibbles, Gottino isn't so much a restaurant as a very well-accoutred wine bar.

• With Russia it amounted to a piddling $18bn.

• Wedgwood wanted to “astonish the world…for I hate piddling”.

• CHINA’S NUCLEAR arsenal is piddling by American or Russian standards.

• And much of the legislation that has made it through has been fairly piddling.

Use piddling in a sentence.

• For now, banks’ bad-loan ratios are only about 3%, piddling by Greek or Italian standards.

• But revenues in China are piddling, with tickets regularly costing as little as 50 yuan ($8).

• When that alliance was first mooted, China was a nascent trading nation and its economic heft was piddling.

• FROM the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, 920 feet above the ground, San Francisco’s monuments look piddling.

• Mass shootings, if they provoke any reaction at all, produce piddling proposals which still cannot be passed.

• The WHO’s budget is a piddling $2.5bn a year (roughly what America spends on health care for a typical small city).

• The England and Wales Cricket Board, which appears to have a much larger bureaucracy than any piddling bank, did not make these mistakes.

• Last week's egregious media coverage of Mr Jobs's piddling ($150m) deal with Microsoft suggests that the faculty-suspending magic still works.

piddling sentence examples

• Its revenues fell from $616m in 2008 to $444m last year, and over the past year its profit margin has been 3.4%—piddling by the industry’s standards.

• When it came to the nitty gritty, however … I had a bust-up with him over releasing a piddling amount of money for the art department to do a location recce.

• But, whether it’s a piddling score on the SAT, a history of drinking on the job, or a “constitutionally illegitimate” congressional inquiry, there’s always a way to put a positive spin on it when searching for the next gig.

• That’s the thing whereby millions of people will take millions of tests every day, allowing us all to go about our lives almost as normal, but for the small, piddling matter that the technology on which Operation Moonshot depends does not, as yet, exist.