Sentence examples for a trifle close from inspiring English sources

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The 50 metal units, which are a trifle close to air ducts in appearance, come in six basic shapes, including rectilinear chutelike sections, triangular and V-shaped units (that double to form X's), which enable the combinations to form corners or branch out.

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The scene in which these two genteel young Englishwomen sharpen their claws on each other through simpering smiles is perhaps a trifle too close to a catfight than is necessary, but it is very funny indeed.

We could've been up there". These lines, a trifle too close for comfort to Marlon Brando's lines in "On the Waterfront," are not the best in Ray Connolly's generally trim script.

Mr Chaplin, rapidly and a trifle wily, brought everything to a delightful close.

However, a closer visual probing reveals a trifle increase in the intensity of the two peaks.

You're so close to those moments that a trifle will set off a fantasy of suicide or some dramatic idea of dying with your loved one, just so you're witnessed together for posterity.

When disgruntled, a chicken sounds closer to a flustered WI member who has dropped a trifle.

A number of soldiers were killed just days and weeks from the end of their deployment, a date close enough to allow those back home to lower their guard a trifle, making the deaths all the more devastating.

And my telepresence conversation with Moran was pretty darn close to a "real" meeting, but for me, at least, it was still a trifle awkward.

The painting seems a trifle naked, but its exposure iterates the basic achievement of this extraordinary exhibition, which is to bring us as close to the making as to the made.

A trifle overwrought?

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