smalltime
Example Sentences
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It is crossed daily by villagers, as their families have done for generations, for collecting firewood or smalltime trading.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
Stricter transparency regulations could be useful for ensuring that smalltime investors aren’t getting the wool pulled over their eyes by crypto influencers and major companies.
From Slate • May 13, 2021
As more jobs are lost and many highly leveraged businesses, from smalltime landlords to airlines, are forced to seek refuge in federal bankruptcy court, lenders and vendors would take further losses.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2020
The point of our punishment – sweeping up cigarette butts in the biting cold – was to encourage us smalltime rule breakers to contemplate our wrongdoings.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2017
To provide the smalltime politician with a fine grasp of the National Problem and how his little local problems fit into the big picture?
From The Fourth R by Smith, George Oliver