bagatelle

Example Sentences

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If there was a misstep on Tuesday, it was in following the bagatelle with Beethoven’s “Pathétique” Sonata, which might have provided an impassioned climax had it not been performed with such a level head.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

The multimillionaire said that $100,000 “was a bagatelle to me” and that the loan was simply “a personal transaction based on old-time friendship.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2022

But that case involved tens of thousands of dollars - a mere bagatelle compared to the monster cryptocurrency scam whose story is being told in an enthralling BBC podcast.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019

He felt moved, with no greater desire than to create a comic bagatelle, to see if he could out-Kanye Kanye, just as the poem declares.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2018

My object in going to the Crimea was to speculate in munitions of war, which I supposed would be sold for a mere bagatelle.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis