Sentence examples for Slightly lessened from inspiring English sources

Exercise only slightly lessened the health risks of sitting.

But with a superior defensive line, the pressure on the Giants' linebackers is slightly lessened.

And some, he said, "say circumcised men get all the women" because of a widespread belief that, with slightly lessened sensation, they can make love longer.

His current novel is swollen to truly Dickensian proportions - a formidable tome three inches thick whose frightening dimensions are slightly lessened by the fact that you can read it much as you scan your email messages, ignoring all the drivel.

That said hopefully this time the threat is slightly lessened as none of the white supremacists will have any shoes.

Something lifted: the national anhedonia that has descended on so many despairing Americans under Bush has ever so slightly lessened this morning.

Saîf-Eddine Khaoui and Ellyes Skhiri added more inventiveness to midfield, slightly lessening the team's reliance on Youssef Msakni for creativity.

It's too deeply ingrained for that, but what this case has done is to ever so slightly lessen my commitment to my team and the whole idea of football support.

The findings suggest the possibility that at least on a small-scale regional or local level, intensification of agriculture on existing farmland could be a way of doing some local geoengineering to at least slightly lessen the impacts of global warming, Eltahir says.

This coating is not what you might be expecting, if you were looking for something like the matte screens that used to be an option for MacBook Pros of old; it's more of a way to slightly lessen the ghosted images you'll see in bright environments, or reflected from other light sources.

Another study found that carbogen (95% oxygen, 5% carbon dioxide) slightly lessens the decreased retinal blood flow caused by breathing pure oxygen (42% reduction with carbogen, 56% reduction with oxygen) [ 62].