Sentence examples for almost lightly from inspiring English sources

The inevitable persecutions descended almost lightly at first; the day after Kristallnacht, Abish's father reported to work as usual.

Abuse isn't dwelt on, but dealt with almost lightly ("and that's the last of my baby teeth").

Some 24 Israeli officers were hurt, almost all lightly.

DO this almost so lightly that you can't feel your fingers.

In Hindi, when the "N" sound comes at the end of a word, it's usually nasal.[3] This means that it's pronounced very lightly — almost imperceptibly — with the nose, so "main" becomes almost like "may".

If he does not entirely impress us, though, he continued to impress Leonardo, whose most touching portrait shows the maturing man sketched lightly, almost absentmindedly, around a drawing of the human heart.

It wears its almost obsessive learning lightly.

He gives his bass drum a pounding and works the high-hat and snare lightly, almost surgically.

They started lightly, almost lobbing the ball, just to get the feel and rhythm of the darting and fluttering pitch.

Can he keep up his streak at No. 1? How long will his body continue to glide lightly, almost ghostlike, over the court?

Mr. Gerald Gardiner, the leading counsel for the defense, was a big, cheerful-looking man on whom the silk of a Queen's Counsel hung lightly, almost casually, and his voice as he addressed the jury occasionally took on an agreeable conversational pitch.