Sentence examples for a tiny slight from inspiring English sources
A cross work, a tiny slight, and they will shoot you down like a dog.
Brian Zeger complained about "a tiny little lack of clarity" and "a slight lack of ping in the soprano register".
Tough puts it this way: Small setbacks feel like crushing defeats; tiny slights turn into serious confrontations.
Yet for all his personal charm and drive, some say, Mr. Levitt could also be thin-skinned about criticism; he still remembers even tiny slights that took place years earlier.
It's people whose self-respect hangs on a thread, or hangs solely on the views of others, who get upset at the tiniest slight, even if it's not intended.
The Guardian's Henry Barnes described Silver Linings Playbook as "a winsome, if patchy romantic comedy" in a three-star review, adding: "[It is] slight, a tiny bit cowardly – jogging, not racing to the touchline.
SEIS is a collection of six seismic sensors (making the name a tidy bilingual, bidirectional pun) that will sit on the ground under what looks like a tiny Kingdome and monitor the slightest movement of the ground underneath.
One winter night, in the poor southern part of Dallas, I attended a prayer service at a tiny Redeemed church overseen by a slight, earnest man in a blue hooded sweatshirt, Pastor Raphael Adebayo.
Both of the CDC scientists Reuters spoke with believe the risk of infection is very slight because only a tiny amount of anthrax was sent out of the bioterror lab.
A research assistant, Alberto Cruz, detected a slight sweet taste when a tiny part of his tongue was chilled and then reheated.
