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    Use "small fry" in a sentence

    small fry example sentences

    small fry


    1. This was small fry stuff


    2. Now it served as a base for a small fry Saturday morning market and a football ground overspill


    3. Just let me hear any Methodist say one word about it--though all the same I'll never forgive Joe Vickers--believe ME! Where are the rest of your small fry to-night?"


    4. The small fry would want nothing to do with infringing on the turf of one of the bigger companies or crews


    5. “These stoppages are ruining our budget Eddie,” said Roger, “Each disc costs over three hundred pounds, and that’s small fry compared to the lost production time


    6. "I figured why stop with the small fry," says Stallman, recalling the button and its message


    7. My mother packed me half litre pressure cooker, small frying pan, kerosene stove, jug, mug, glass, bucket, eating plate, bowl, sleeping mat, handmade fan, torch, matchsticks, candles, and all the basic needs of a man


    8. In a small frying pan heat the oil on medium high


    9. Most of the surviving names on the list were small fry, fleeing for their life, and of no great interest to Clayton and his team


    10. It was apparent that she shunned me for being a small fry and not for any lack of regard for my cousin

    11. My dad and uncles often call her Spritz or Small Fry, but I wouldn’t advise you guys to call her by those nicknames, not unless you like receiving black eyes, cause…“


    12. Guessed he was too small fry for that


    13. small fry in the early stages of development


    14. Shoals of small fry swarmed around the hulk and as Wan Lung approached he could see that some skittered urgently through the water inside the vehicle as well, having swum in through the windows that were open, or at least those he could see that were not closed


    15. And yet they were small fry


    16. He found a small frying pan in one of the cupboards


    17. “Come on, Small Fry, let's dance


    18. It was only the small fry that puzzled him sometimes


    19. And who's been encouraging it? Who's screened it by her authority? Who's upset them all? Who has made all the small fry huffy? All their family secrets are caricatured in your album


    20. As for ladies and girls, Pyotr Stepanovitch's arguments (the duplicity of which was obvious now) turned out to be utterly incorrect: exceedingly few had come; to four men there was scarcely one lady—and what ladies they were! Regimental ladies of a sort, three doctors' wives with their daughters, two or three poor ladies from the country, the seven daughters and the niece of the secretary whom I have mentioned already, some wives of tradesmen, of post-office clerks and other small fry—was this what Yulia Mihailovna expected? Half the tradespeople even were absent

    21. Noble silver roubles, stout solid rouble and a half pieces, pretty half rouble coins, plebeian quarter roubles, twenty kopeck pieces, even the unpromising old crone's small fry of ten and five kopeck silver pieces—all done up in separate bits of paper in the most methodical and systematic way; there were curiosities also, two counters of some sort, one napoléon d'or, one very rare coin of some unknown kind


    22. It sometimes happened that this wily scheme of honest play went on for five or six weeks in succession, so that the small fry, winning the band's money, remained entirely convinced that it was playing in an honorable and respectable private house, and very naturally spread abroad the fame of it throughout the whole city


    23. “There are,” we are told, in addition to the magnates just mentioned, “hosts of comparatively small fry whose annual profits will pass the fifty-thousand-dollar mark


    24. ” If an architect whose net income is only a thousand dollars a week belongs to the “small fry,” what name would these journalists have for the remaining insignificant beings who practise architecture faithfully and skilfully, and thank Providence sincerely if their year’s work shows a profit of three thousand dollars? Yet, with a tolerably extended acquaintance in the profession, we are inclined to think that this list includes the greater part of the architects in this country


    25. ” By averaging these two pieces of misinformation, after the manner of the commissioners of statistics, one may, perhaps, get some sort of notion of what a very able and distinguished architect in New York, seconded by skilful and devoted assistants, can make out of his business; but men so successful are extremely rare exceptions in the profession, and the “hosts” of “small fry” whose annual profits amount to fifty thousand dollars, of course, do not exist


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