How to Use small potatoes in a Sentence
small potatoes
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Anyway, all of that is small potatoes compared to the slop currently being sold in the team store.
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Zach Dean Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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With so many angels hanging around, the head of a pin problem is small potatoes given the current state of the world.
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Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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While working in a kitchen at Auschwitz, my mother managed to hide several small potatoes.
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Norman B. Gildin,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2026
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Indeed, the outcome of an entertainment contract seems like small potatoes by comparison.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
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The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.
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Arthur Knight,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
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Celsius ultimately declared bankruptcy, but that’s small potatoes compared to what happened to FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, who was famously convicted of seven counts of fraud and is now serving 25 years in prison.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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