How to Use little people in a Sentence

little people

plural noun
  • But that goes to show how little people knew about the 3-point contest then.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • When little people climb into our bed in the middle of the night.
    — Justin Ricklefs, Redbook, 10 June 2019
  • Experts say that keeping as little people in the know about your big win is key.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 28 July 2022
  • The little people don't like you, and the big people don't believe in you.
    — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2020
  • These people that didn't make their own way are in her mind stepping on the little people.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Then, as now, the ruling class makes laws for us little people and exempts itself.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The little people may have won the battle, but nobody’s winning the war.
    — Vulture, 22 June 2023
  • The child is set afloat on a grass raft and found by a village of little people (the Nelwyn).
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 May 2022
  • The child was set afloat on a grass raft and found by a village of little people (the Nelwyn).
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2022
  • For all the little things little people need, there's nothing like a stylish storage basket.
    — Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2021
  • This action is, among other things, a reminder of how little people seem to know or care about women's health.
    — Anushay Hossain, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • But seeing two adorable little people motoring around my house is amazing.
    — Andrea Stanley, Redbook, 16 June 2017
  • That the little people are there to provide service on demand without rights to concern over their own lives.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • There’s nothing little people love more than splishing and splashing around in the water — any body of water.
    — Essence, 10 June 2019
  • Despite all of that stuff, for safety reasons, those little people need special backpacks to match their small size.
    — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Granny Squannit is the leader of the little people who are called makiawisug.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 1 June 2021
  • There are signs that pop culture is changing its attitudes toward little people.
    — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 13 Oct. 2017
  • To put it plainly, Dopesick wasn't going to work if the audience didn't care about the little people.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Because what is obvious to us likely is not obvious to our little people.
    — Natasha Ganem, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Lots of kids get small objects stuck up their noses; there’s something about stuffing things up there that’s kind of appealing to little people.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • My three little people have totally different schedules to keep track of, and my baby girl has her own agenda.
    — Rachel Hollis, Time, 27 Feb. 2018
  • In Mumbai, some of the little people in the signal lights have swapped their straight-legged trousers for triangular frocks.
    — Tiffany May New York Times, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The little people are being menaced by a dark force—a force with power, money, and very few moral inhibitions.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • In the midst of these beautiful, massive crystals there are these tiny little people wearing what looks like orange hazmat suits.
    — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • As the two high-profile running backs remained away from their teams, Gordon was struck by how little people seemed to care about his story.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The little people and their counterparts mainly get along, and sometimes even have dinner together.
    — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • He was seen as a freedom fighter on behalf of the little people being surveilled, overcharged, and disempowered.
    — Wired, 22 Sep. 2019
  • There was also a lovely moment of hillbilly elegizing, as one of the pundits put on his best hick costume to get in with the little people.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • An elder had told Wright that the forest was off-limits because little people with their feet turned backward lived there and would cast evil spells on trespassers.
    — Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • The show became synonymous with trash TV, guilty pleasures, strippers and little people.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023

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