Sentence examples for a slight check from inspiring English sources

A slight check in Britain in July may be little more than a seasonal correction.

The financial collapse of the 1890s acted as a slight check to Sydney's growth, but population doubled again by 1914 and reached the million mark soon after.

Since Citizens United opened the floodgates for organized money to pour into elections without the slightest check, Republican leaders and their key allies have done everything possible to foster anonymous and untraceable attacks from the shadows.

We suggest that the plastome A+T bias is relatively modest and results from a slight mutation and/or error checking bias of the plastid DNA polymerases or perhaps some selection for A and T in otherwise neutral positions to increase ease of denaturation during replication or transcription.

To determine their ripeness, check for a slight yield around the neck just below the stem.

(When sugar is caramelized, it will have a slight burned aroma. To check color of syrup, dip in a wooden spoon and allow syrup to drip off; caramelized syrup will be dark golden brown).

Once the saw has made a slight cut into the wood, check that you're sawing in the right direction and angle.

"He had a slight little setback but we checked by scan and there is nothing wrong.

So he made a slight adjustment and asked Jeter to check whether he could see anything, and Jeter could not.

On the TV variety show Saturday Night Live in May, Toronto's hip-hop icon Drake played a gameshow contestant named Jared – a cheerful goof with dreadlocks and a red check shirt with a slight Caribbean lilt.

A subsequent document, "January performance report additional comments", says, referring to the January Manus Island report: "A couple of missing police checks resulted in a slight miss on the staff records metric".