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, 8 May 2024
• 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 pet peeve is judges who bang their gavel each time that rule on something.
  — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
• My pet peeve is judges who bang their gavel each time that rule on something.
  — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
• Everyone has them, and what those pet peeves are can tell you a lot about a person.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The singer shared one of her biggest pet peeves during a recent podcast.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
• Don't comment on nursing My blood also boils over this pet peeve of Kelce’s.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 9 Jan. 2025
• Don't comment on nursing My blood also boils over this pet peeve of Kelce’s.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 9 Jan. 2025
• 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
• According to Evite, the pet peeve every party guest dreads is when an invite isn’t clear enough.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2025
• Her pet peeve in employees, meanwhile, is those who process, rather than think of ways to meaningfully contribute.
  — Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
• What are your podcasting pet peeves?
  — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
• Non-absorbent towels are one of my biggest pet peeves.
  — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
• What are your restaurant icks and pet peeves?
  — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025