Pedantic in a sentence?

were being unnecessarily pedantic (= giving too much attention to formal rules or small details) by insisting that Berry himself, and not his wife, should have made the announcement. The tactic was...

James Smithers is very boring, fussy and pedantic with his undue emphasis on unimportant detail; the fellow just can't see the wood for the trees.

When it has a subject, verb, punctuation, capitalization, a predicate, and a complete thought. A sentence is a sentence when it is handed down by a judge (or a magistrate).

She's accurate because she's so pedantic. His pedantic answers to simple questions doesn't help the beginners.

When it doesn't have a noun ( subject), a verb (the predicate) , no punctuation, when the first letter isn't capitalized and when it hasn't a complete thought. You need all of this to have a complete...