Sentence examples for a slightest from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a slightest" is not correct in written English.
The correct expression is "the slightest," which is used to indicate a very small amount or degree of something.
Example: "I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about."
Alternatives: "the least bit" or "any small amount".

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"There is not even a slightest doubt that Basayev was killed," he said.

He said he didn't have a slightest idea, and moreover that was how it should be in Test cricket.

You can make any philosopher – any, Aristotle, Kant, you name it – look like a complete flaming idiot with just a slightest little tweak".

Chirkov is quoted as saying:  The task is crystal clear: to avoid a slightest threat to the security of the state.

"Panic sets in when there's a slightest glitch," Jen Chung, editor of the Gothamist Web log, wrote in an e-mail message.

The natural world of these northern seas is so sensitive and so vulnerable that even a slightest breach in its structure can lead to consequences no one will be able to reverse," the 2007 report concluded.

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A slight smile rose.

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