Sentence examples for a slight figure from inspiring English sources
Blackwood, a slight figure, punches a weight that belies his appearance, ferocious on anything short.
He stood alone, a slight figure, holding a twelve-string guitar in front of the microphones.
Here I met Karim, a slight figure whose impeccable English betrayed his British university education - civil engineering at Birmingham.
Long a powerful figure, Mr. Krajisnik, 55, seemed just a slight figure in the largest courtroom of the tribunal.
Rosewall was a slight figure, ironically nicknamed Muscles, who sported a neat haircut and clean-cut look.
Craig is a slighter figure than Ted Hughes, though he has the craggy good looks and bitten-back charm, but Paltrow's resemblance to Sylvia Plath was uncanny.
There were seven of them: two drummers, two guitarists (Weir and Garcia), a bass player, a man who played the piano and the organ, and Pigpen, a small, slight figure in denim, with a thin beard and a crumpled hat, who sometimes played the organ, sometimes the conga drums, and other times just wandered around the stage, standing in front of the other musicians and pointing a camera at them.
A small, slight figure in a stylish but sober blue suit, he creeps on stage without any kind of introduction, and strolls back and forth, talking into a microphone non-stop for 100 minutes, before walking off stage again.
A dapper, slight figure whose mien perhaps belied the strengths he obviously possessed, Barritt was ordained into the Methodist ministry in 1947 and joined the charity in 1957 as head of aftercare, pioneering family centres, which have since become central to children's services.
But the world's top creative attacker-in-waiting is a much less slight figure these days.
