small-time

Example Sentences

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Rocky Balboa is a stumblebum club fighter making $65 a fight and working on the side as collection man for small-time mobsters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

It was small-time stuff until after the Civil War, when the railroads reached south and the fruit sold north.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

With a love triangle between two living parties and a dead guy, custody disagreements and a few other small-time secrets, Hoover has essentially perfected the recipe for the modern melodrama.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Currency trading by small-time investors in Japan is more popular than it is in the U.S., experts said.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025

Hence, though a small-time operation, like everything else Ruby tackled, the Body Shop and Pipe Queen was the best operation of its kind in the county.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols