How to Use pet peeve in a Sentence

pet peeve

noun

• One of my biggest pet peeves is people driving too slowly on the highway.
• My pet peeve with tights is that most waists are just, well, too tight.
  — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• My other pet peeve is the naked droplet [from a] cough into the air, in 2023.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2023
• So with that in mind, one of the five biggest gym pet peeves take it away, Jesse?
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• That’s one of my pet peeves: people that don’t respond to you.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2024
• This is one of my biggest pet peeves ever and needs to end.
  — Stefanie Lyn Kaufman As Told To Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Aug. 2018
• One of my pet peeves is: Don’t sit around me or near me and then have your phone at full volume.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
• That should help with one of Reeve’s pet peeves, shot selection.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
• Her travel pet peeves: People who trim their nails on a plane.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Sep. 2023
• One of Tate’s pet peeves is folks spending so much time looking at their cell phones.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• Design pet peeves: When rooms look too perfect or not lived in.
  — Linda Jerkins, ajc, 14 Oct. 2017
• My fashion pet peeve is how people dress at the airport.
  — Andrea Cheng, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2019
• The two also jested about their pet peeves about each other.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• In his last video, posted three weeks ago, Mr. Troyer was in an armchair and talked about his pet peeves.
  — Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
• Courtesy of brands Want to hear my biggest beauty pet peeve?
  — Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire, 3 Dec. 2019
• Oh, and one last pet peeve of mine: over half of people don’t read anything more than the headlines online.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2018
• This is an old pet peeve of mine about how Democrats debate policy.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
• That’s been my pet peeve about Ashley Monroe and her music.
  — Jon Bernstein, GQ, 8 May 2018
• From hovering at the gate to taking shoes and socks off on the plane, there was no end to their various pet peeves.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2018
• This reflects a pet peeve of mine, which is the sad state of education for our young people.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
• My current biggest pet peeve about the NBA is how teams often don’t start games with their best five players on the floor.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• My snooty pet peeve now feels like the apex of pre-pandemic luxury.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 17 Feb. 2021
• In this day and age, hangers would seem like a savings in waste, in addition to doing away with a pet peeve of mine!
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• Loud bikes are a pet peeve of many who say the unbridled mufflers make their bodies shake, hurt their ears and wake them from sleep.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• Everyone who gets behind the wheel has a favorite pet peeve.
  — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
• The cast began the game by answering what the biggest pet peeve Eugene Levy had to overcome while on set was.
  — Katherine Schaffstall, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2020
• Things CEOs have shared with me that are pet peeves: Pajama-looking clothes and plastic shoes with holes in them.
  — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• Some even lack headshots, which is a personal pet peeve.
  — Nancy Marshall, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• My pet peeve is the slowpokes particularly those that set their cruise control in the middle lane causing frustrated drivers to pass them on the left and right.
  — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2024
• This dish brush is easy to use, makes quick work of stuck on messes, dispenses soap from the handle, and has a built in stand that actually keeps the brush standing on its own (brushes sitting in the sink is possibly my biggest pet peeve).
  — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024