Sentence examples for began lightly from inspiring English sources

Before Rivera began lightly tossing a ball in the seventh, he sat in the corner of the bullpen as if he were sitting on his couch.

It began lightly with some acoustic guitar picking, ballooned out when the crowd took over the vocals, and then ramped up into a rockabilly stomp at the end, albeit a very polite one.

The sessions began lightly when Jinnah, photographed between Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, quipped "A rose between two thorns" which the Viceroy took, perhaps gratuitously, as evidence that the Muslim leader had pre-planned his joke, but had expected the vicereine to stand in the middle.

The story begins lightly.

What begins lightly culminates with a tragic accident.

Mr. Glass begins lightly, describing a funeral featuring a video with a soundtrack of Barbra Streisand singing.

Ms. Birot's film, the darker of the two, begins lightly as the story of teenage girlfriends who have spent summers together since childhood and are eagerly awaiting their reunion.

Our baseline is for the Fed to begin lightly touching the brakes with policy rates starting to rise by mid-2015, all the while keeping the car driving smoothly down the road to growth and recovery.

With the glass supported on a soft surface such as a towel, begin lightly tapping the center of the glass with an ordinary metal hammer.

Snow began falling lightly after dark.

Then, just as a 21-gun-salute began, three lightly armed Taliban fighters began to take pot-shots from a shabby hotel nearby.