How to Use small-time in a Sentence

small-time

adjective

• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024