Sentence examples for a slight thing from inspiring English sources

He's a slight thing when in the stalls, and allows himself to be kissed for the camera.

How can we ascend to higher ground when such a grievous injustice against a Jewish family and the Jewish community is dismissed as a slight thing?

Pinero's comedy is a slight thing, though it has a real theme, one which often recurred in his plays (some 60 of them).

This is about a slight thing, and slight things are hard to write about, because part of you feels you shouldn't be wasting words on anything which is less than of major importance; but most of the fabric of human life is made up not of great events, but of minor occurrences, and I feel that sometimes they should be written about too, and indeed celebrated.

Other than questions about whether the policy has actually worked or not, there is another interesting little twist to QE. "There's a slight thing we have to bear in mind," Paul Fisher says, "that it's illegal [under the Maastricht Treaty] for central banks to directly fund government spending, and we would fully support that".

"It was only a slight technical thing - a slight backlift tweak - but because I'd spotted that thing, although I didn't have a lot of runs behind me, I went into the first Test feeling very confident.

"For every slight thing, he would beat us," Florence Adok recounted of her husband, a captain, who selected her and raped her when she was 12.

There's only one slight thing I'm worrying about.

"You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted and suddenly you're in trouble.

Don't obsess over every slight thing the other person does; let the small stuff go.

The slightest thing -- a B instead of an A or a typo in the essay -- is enough to push an admissions decision from a yay to a nay.