Perennial 1950s-'60s NBA all-star

Usage examples of pettit.

In January 2003, a woman named Sarah Pettit, the senior editor for the Newsweek Arts and Entertainment section, died of non-Hodgkin s lymphoma at the tragically young age of thirty- six.

Major Pettingill Pettit, our former County Attorney and hero of the battle of Lookout Mountain.

And then Pettit came to me bearing an invisible mitten, with the fortitude of a dish-rag.

His father, Tom Pettit, the owner of the TeePee Ranch, had died three years ago, and it now belonged to Doyle.

Momentarily disgruntled by the implied failure, Doyle Pettit refilled his glass, then poured whiskey into the two that Sonny set on the table.

His objective was Doyle Pettit, minus his hat, goggles, and coat, standing by the hood of his shiny black automobile and proudly demonstrating to the curious the function of the crank.

His attention was centered on Doyle Pettit, although he had taken in the rest of them and marked them in his memory.

Lilli shifted her attention to Doyle Pettit, eloquently appealing to Franz Kreuger to persuade the homesteaders to change their minds about the cowboys.

What more would one ask than an opportunity to watch the great Aristide Pettit at work?

The brain of Aristide Pettit and the nose of Aristide Pettit cooperated to succeed.

Richelieu told everyone that he had been the first to respond to the burglar alarm at the Pettit house.

The name signed on the credit memo from the shopping bag, Johnsey Pettit, set off red lights and sirens in an interstate register of major crimes still awaiting clearance.