pet peeve
Example Sentences
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From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 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
We know every secret, private joke and pet peeve about each other , based on memories woven so deeply into the L.A. backdrop, they can’t be undone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
I know that unnecessarily tall things are a pet peeve of Autumn’s, but I don’t understand why she seems so ready to go head-to-head with something this huge.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
