Sentence examples for a slight passing from inspiring English sources

Don't even give a slight passing glance in their direction, because that's what they want.

I'll give him a slight pass for 2001, what with the attacks and all that.

From there we walked down a slight hill, passing a flock of sulfur-crested cockatoos, just milling about, pulling worms from the front lawn of a bed-and-breakfast.

There was a tendency to a slight but passing reduction in urine output also in the right kidney but neither urine output nor creatinine clearance changed significantly over time in the right kidney (Fig. 2a).

The measured size of image was 400 × 400 scanning lines and the integration time was 30 ms, in which most of the captured images were performed a slight low-pass filtering before data processing.

", too, have had our chipper days and our days of editorial malaise; we have squirmed appreciatively when people have patted us on the head, and have tried not to take to hard when people we thought were going to pat us on the head walked coldly by, or gave us a slight kick in passing; occasionally we have come close to tumbling as we tried to turn an unfamiliar corner.

If Klinsmann had been listening in, he could have been forgiven a slight smile before passing Garber his headache tablets.

When Abe perceives a slight from a passing bicyclist on the street, he gathers his mates Jake and Asif, and Kate finds herself trapped in a car on a hot afternoon, a plaything in a tense stakeout of revenge, as the three men await the return of their quarry.

The academic also suggested that the upheaval in GCSEs could lead to a slight rise in pass-rates this year.

In her hands, comedy is a powerful weapon though even she suffers a slight humour by-pass over critics, and spends more time than is healthy picking apart written assessments of her shows.

For anyone with even the slightest passing knowledge of 20th-century history, it is not hard to understand the roots of these feelings.