How to Use small-time in a Sentence
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Green had been a small-time local drug dealer at the time.
— CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024 -
These results seem pretty small-time compared with remotely hacking a car to steer it into a ditch.
— Neil J. Rubenking, PCMAG, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Most American copper thieves, however, are small-time opportunists drawn to a laughably easy score.
— Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024 -
The small-time thinkers of the faculty won the day, but probably doomed BSC in the process.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2023 -
From Kennedys and Capote to small-time crooks, this summer isn’t short on characters.
— Town & Country, 13 June 2023 -
This story of a small-time New England criminal takes on the proportions of an epic tragedy.
— The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023 -
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of similar crews in Atlanta, many with three-letter names, most of them small-time.
— Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023 -
He was born in Donelson, a Nashville suburb, and spent his youth running afoul of the law, racking up half a dozen arrests for small-time crimes.
— Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024 -
Munger lived more like a wealthy dentist, or a small-time media mogul whose movies had gone straight to cable, not someone who was worth more than the GDP of Monaco.
— Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 8 July 2024 -
So far, the law’s most noticeable effects seem to be sending droves of tourists to New Jersey and frustrating small-time Airbnb hosts.
— Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024 -
These four teenagers laze around the neighborhood, pulling small-time heists and oddball capers, but also mourning the loss of their friend Daniel, who took his own life prior to the start of the show.
— Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023 -
After a small-time crypto investor challenged his claims in 2019, Dr. Wright sued for defamation in England.
— David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 21 May 2024 -
After leaving the academy in 1980, Mr. Prigozhin fell in with street gangs and was arrested for small-time thefts as a juvenile.
— Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023 -
Belivuk might have remained a small-time thug had his life not intersected with the rise of Aleksandar Vucic.
— Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023 -
Rocky Sylvester Stallone plays small-time boxer who gets the rare chance to fight a heavyweight champion in Philadelphia.
— Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2023 -
But even in a scenario that leaves small-time entrepreneurs in the dust, some advocates argue that medicalization would be a net good.
— Jane C. Hu, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Hardly anyone wanted to talk about much else — especially not a small-time football team in the second year of its rebirth.
— Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2023 -
The Bohemians: This small-time soccer team in Dublin has made support for social causes a crucial part of its identity.
— Megan Specia, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024 -
The Bohemians: This small-time soccer team in Dublin has made support for social causes a crucial part of its identity.
— Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024 -
Some are wealthy Russians buying vehicles for themselves, or small-time entrepreneurs looking to resell cars for a quick buck.
— Jack Ewing, New York Times, 11 May 2023 -
Sonny Vaccarro was the son of a Pennsylvania coal miner and a small-time basketball coach.
— Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023 -
The fact that the small-time local bureaucrat — and not the investors or the lawyers — had suffered the most severely spoke to the real-life consequences of financial fraud, which often seems so abstract and opaque.
— Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024 -
Dealers—most selling crystal meth, or shabu, the drug of choice of the Filipino poor—as well as addicts, former addicts, and small-time criminals became targets.
— Joshua Hammer, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2023 -
Before that, Cooke had grown immensely wealthy by building an investment network that sold more than $1.6 billion in Civil War bonds to small-time investors across the North.
— Mickey Butts, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Her husband began to make small-time drug deals, selling homegrown marijuana and poppies, used to make heroin.
— Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023 -
The book’s sadder portraits are of the many small investors who lost their shirts (and in some cases their lives; small-time crypto investors have distressingly high suicide rates) in this fiasco.
— Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Grand openers Brandi Carlile and Grouplove Opening bands are often small-time acts, looking for exposure and stage practice.
— Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 27 July 2023 -
At first, Will seems like an everyman, and Kendall gives him an approachable reticence in the face of Kaminsky’s effectively broader portrayal of a small-time big-box tyrant.
— Vulture, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Proprietor Chris Gore says the site receives upwards of 100 requests for coverage each week from small-time filmmakers looking for reviews.
— Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024 -
But Prigozhin—who was once Russian president Vladimir Putin’s chef and a small-time criminal—also held a title as one of the world’s biggest disinformation peddlers.
— Matt Burgess, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
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