Example Sentences

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Connie, a scuzzy small-timer from Queens who dashes through much of the movie sporting stud earrings, a gray hoodie and a hastily applied blond dye job.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2017

The script focused on Wells, the son of a local businessman who wanted to be seen as more than just the small-timer he feared he was becoming.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2016

After years spent as a relative small-timer, the mercurial entrepreneur finds himself vice chairman of Time Warner, at the center of the world's largest programming engine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, was a show-business small-timer in Los Angeles, a sometime model and actress in commercials.

From Time Magazine Archive

His story went on to tick off other notable racketeers-"after the bankers come the Wall Streeters"-before arriving at Al Capone, who was charitably described as "a small-timer."

From Time Magazine Archive