How to Use small potato in a Sentence

small potato

noun

• Ruple developed a lump the size of a small potato on his breast.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 16 June 2019
• The specifics of the plan — the bigger standard deduction, etc. — are small potatoes compared to that.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Gee, this is 'small potatoes' compared to what Hillary Clinton did!
  — D. Elizabeth, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2018
• The smaller potatoes took about an hour, while full-size potatoes baked for 90 minutes or more.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
• All are terrible and the size of those schemes may make the cannabis industry scandals look like small potatoes.
  — Debra Borchardt, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Of course, that write-down is small potatoes compared with what happened nearly 16 years ago.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
• That would make mini-cupcakes look like small potatoes.
  — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 17 Oct. 2017
• Still, Monday's weather was small potatoes compared to what will hit the region in a couple days.
  — Dale Kasler and Benjy Egel, sacbee, 26 Feb. 2018
• My only complaints about the Terrain are small potatoes.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2018
• Great idea; that's a few more dollars. Soak the oil companies a little more? Fine, and again, small potatoes compared to our money gap.
  — Glenn Cravez, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 June 2017
• Monday's weather was small potatoes compared to what will hit the region late Wednesday.
  — Dale Kasler and Benjy Egel, sacbee, 27 Feb. 2018
• In a large pot on the stovetop layer 3 quartered onions, 4 cloves crushed garlic, 12 small potatoes (such as red potatoes) halved, and red pepper flakes.
  — Emily Weinberger, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2013
• In light of the financial industry scandals that followed, the Keating one was small potatoes.
  — Elizabeth Drew, The New Republic, 1 June 2018
• This method works well with nearly all small potatoes – from little red potatoes to fingerlings.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2018
• This method works well with nearly all small potatoes — from little red potatoes to fingerlings.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
• Now that’s no small potatoes, but even more astonishing is that this could be the wettest air mass on record in central California.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2018
• Don’t think of that household surplus as small potatoes: a single salt kitchen, run by a single household, could have turned out six tons of salt in a single season.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2018
• But that’s small potatoes in the grand scheme of a major hurricane threat. Food losses may be covered by insurance or tax-deductible.
  — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• There was also steak, a sirloin served sliced with a rich brown sauce as only restaurants can make, and some of those delicious meltingly creamy small potatoes.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• That will seem like small potatoes to someone paying some 45 percent more for premium fuel.
  — National Geographic, 20 May 2016
• But these titans of industry are still small potatoes in the e-cigarette world, with their vapes consistently losing out to new-kid-on-the-block, Juul.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 21 Nov. 2018
• For the perfect crunch, smash small potatoes before roasting and for a creamy treat; try simmering celeriac in milk before mashing.
  — Plum Organics®, Bon Appetit, 1 Apr. 2017
• Maybe to you, Lady Bird’s critical, nearly twee grandiosity is too earnest, too small potatoes, too corny, too feel-good, too… adolescent girl?
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Meanwhile, all that tariff money is likely to bring an extra $40 billion of duties to the Treasury this year — small potatoes in the context of a $1 trillion budget deficit, but a sizable sum in its own right.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• That’s a fine enough interpretation for this cliffhanger and small potatoes compared to the fan theorizing that has followed The Sopranos finale for over a decade.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 20 May 2018
• So considering some of those previous actions, what Mayfield did seems like small potatoes.
  — Tim Griffin, ajc, 20 Nov. 2017
• Deals are in the range of a few hundred million dollars on average — small potatoes compared to Bain’s $18 billion purchase a couple years of ago of Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip business.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2019
• That’s small potatoes compared to, say, beauty or gaming influencers boasting tens of millions of followers.
  — Erin Griffith, WIRED, 12 June 2018
• But Microsoft’s contracts, which exceed $10 million, are small potatoes compared to the agency’s main suppliers.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2019
• Alessandra, meanwhile, was roasting small potatoes, drizzling olive oil over butterhead lettuce, and cooking sweet Italian sausages.
  — Libby Copeland, Curbed, 14 Mar. 2018

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