Examples of pet peeve in a Sentence
One of my biggest pet peeves is people driving too slowly on the highway.
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One of Tate’s pet peeves is folks spending so much time looking at their cell phones.
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
And now, as more people ditch working from home, the printing company Digital ID surveyed 3,500 people to find out what their biggest office pet peeves were this year.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
That’s one of my pet peeves: people that don’t respond to you.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2024
Efficient And Seamless Interactions As a customer, one of my pet peeves is repeating the same information to multiple people or in different channels.
—Rick Watkin, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
For me, two personal pet peeves come to mind: first, incorrectly pronouncing the word sommelier (suh·muhl·yay, not suh-mawl-ee-yay) and second, asking a waiter if a wine is dry and nothing else.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
His travel pet peeve When people aggressively fart on planes.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2023
Everyone who gets behind the wheel has a favorite pet peeve.
—Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
Employees who film TikToks at work, vaping indoors, and staying online past working hours were some of the biggest office pet peeves this year, according to a survey from printing company DigitalID. —Orianna Rosa Royle
Happy at home.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
And now, as more people ditch working from home, the printing company Digital ID surveyed 3,500 people to find out what their biggest office pet peeves were this year.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
That’s one of my pet peeves: people that don’t respond to you.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2024
Efficient And Seamless Interactions As a customer, one of my pet peeves is repeating the same information to multiple people or in different channels.
—Rick Watkin, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
For me, two personal pet peeves come to mind: first, incorrectly pronouncing the word sommelier (suh·muhl·yay, not suh-mawl-ee-yay) and second, asking a waiter if a wine is dry and nothing else.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
His travel pet peeve When people aggressively fart on planes.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2023
Everyone who gets behind the wheel has a favorite pet peeve.
—Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
Employees who film TikToks at work, vaping indoors, and staying online past working hours were some of the biggest office pet peeves this year, according to a survey from printing company DigitalID. —Orianna Rosa Royle
Happy at home.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
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First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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