Sentence examples for as slight from inspiring English sources

Precisely because these scenes are so depressingly similar, the book feels padded as well as slight.

She was as slight as a sparrow, her face often flushed beneath her bleached blonde hair.

Others may see the increase as slight, but that is not my view.

Mr. Allen's recent pictures have been described as slight and anecdotal.

In these images she looked as slight and vulnerable as a child.

They were both described as "slight" but Carter's experience was anything but easy.

But she's being a little disingenuous — she's as slight as a wren.

Progress was frustratingly slow in those days, when the skis were as slight as our knees.

Like Lee Westwood, Monty's form so far this year has been as slight as his figure.

He emerged as slight, as swift and as balanced as Januzaj was on Saturday.

She is five-six ("or I used to be"), and, at sixty-eight, she is as slight as a sparrow.