pet peeve
Example Sentences
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It’s a pet peeve of hers when someone is multitasking when she’s trying to talk to them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
“It’s a pet peeve with many people,” he told me.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2025
"It was something that, at first, would always really excite me, but has become increasingly something of a pet peeve," said bookseller and fantasy blogger Bethan Hindmarch, from Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2025
In Nishiki, signs popped up among the stalls admonishing tourists not to eat while walking, a pet peeve in Japan.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022
This is how I find out that Miss McDaniels has yet another pet peeve besides lateness, wasting valuable time, and utter nonsense.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
