The great king, as we have seen, confined himself to small annoyances.
"People just tend to accept," she says - they think they're stuck with small annoyances.
The dragon seemed a very small annoyance this morning.
You may have small annoyances to follow this dream.
Then his conscience kicked in, a small annoyance he'd never been able to shake.
A hostile thing, life, full of silent menace and small annoyances.
My daughter and I, both old movie buffs, shared another small annoyance.
But they found a small annoyance waiting for them at Woking.
Or possibly it was just an accumulation of smaller annoyances.
As I see it, life's small annoyances are called petty for a reason.