Sentence examples for a light thing from inspiring English sources

That was a light thing.

John decides to go back into the booth, where Phil greets him with: "I thought this was supposed to be a light thing".

"Whether it was a dark thing or a light thing," Mr. Seinfeld said, "we almost always agreed on what was funny and what wasn't funny".

For while a heavy thing may always be heavier than something and a light thing lighter than something, a thing which is heavier or lighter than something need not be itself heavy or light, just as a large thing is larger than others, but what is larger is not always large.

He argued that it was inherent that a defendant could not be a real witness: '(I t is not in human nature to speak the truth under such a pressure as would be brought to bear on the prisoner, and it is not a light thing to institute a system which would almost enforce perjury on every occasion.' A General View of the Criminal Law of England, p. 202.

Press command+c click on the small picture at the top right on the Info tab, and it should be surrounded by a light thing.

A poem, she once told a friend, was a relatively light thing; it could be carried around "while you're doing the housework".

His idea of an evening was a supper of "olives or some light thing," a pipe and a glass of water.

The light thing will work like a charm.

But it was only a light little thing and it wasn't really doing anything.

The book may not be more than the sum of its parts – it is a light, ephemeral thing – but the parts themselves glisten and lodge in the memory.