How to Use little people in a Sentence

little people

plural noun
  • Try to be kind to us little people as you tap-dance your way to the top.
    Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The enemies of God — and the little people — paid the bills.
    Richard Lindzen, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The little people don't like you, and the big people don't believe in you.
    NBC News, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The child is set afloat on a grass raft and found by a village of little people (the Nelwyn).
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 May 2022
  • The child was set afloat on a grass raft and found by a village of little people (the Nelwyn).
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2022
  • When little people climb into our bed in the middle of the night.
    Justin Ricklefs, Redbook, 10 June 2019
  • And the little people like myself can’t get into the game.
    Christina Sturdivant Sani, Washington Post, 14 June 2021
  • The little people may have won the battle, but nobody’s winning the war.
    Vulture, 22 June 2023
  • Katz was a champion of the little people, Jesse Katz said.
    Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • These people that didn't make their own way are in her mind stepping on the little people.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Experts say that keeping as little people in the know about your big win is key.
    Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 28 July 2022
  • To put it plainly, Dopesick wasn't going to work if the audience didn't care about the little people.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Then, as now, the ruling class makes laws for us little people and exempts itself.
    WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Granny Squannit is the leader of the little people who are called makiawisug.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 1 June 2021
  • In Mumbai, some of the little people in the signal lights have swapped their straight-legged trousers for triangular frocks.
    Tiffany May New York Times, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • This action is, among other things, a reminder of how little people seem to know or care about women's health.
    Anushay Hossain, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • For all the little things little people need, there's nothing like a stylish storage basket.
    Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2021
  • That the little people are there to provide service on demand without rights to concern over their own lives.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • There’s nothing little people love more than splishing and splashing around in the water — any body of water.
    Essence, 10 June 2019
  • As the two high-profile running backs remained away from their teams, Gordon was struck by how little people seemed to care about his story.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Lots of kids get small objects stuck up their noses; there’s something about stuffing things up there that’s kind of appealing to little people.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Though preoccupied with the cares of office, Mr. Xi still has time for the little people, the Xinhua profile marveled.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2021
  • What’s most surprising about the tremendous success of the 8086, though, is how little people expected of it when it was first conceived.
    Benj Edwards, PCWorld, 8 June 2018
  • Despite all of that stuff, for safety reasons, those little people need special backpacks to match their small size.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The big winners of the 2023 Golden Globes do not forget about the little people, or, technically, the little donkeys.
    Vulture, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Even when viewed from very high up, through the lens of a thing that’s been alive since before Jesus, all these little people with their short, busy lives and blinding passions are very dear indeed.
    Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • But the old spirit of noblesse oblige was often troubled by a certain condescension, a sense that rules are for the little people.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
  • An elder had told Wright that the forest was off-limits because little people with their feet turned backward lived there and would cast evil spells on trespassers.
    Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • There was also a lovely moment of hillbilly elegizing, as one of the pundits put on his best hick costume to get in with the little people.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • The little people and their counterparts mainly get along, and sometimes even have dinner together.
    Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023

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