Sentence examples for deflect only slightly from inspiring English sources
They deflect only slightly.
When the incoming photon is deflected only slightly, little energy is transferred to the electron.
Interestingly, previous paleomagnetic data for this formation reported by Hayashida (1986) appear to indicate a paleomagnetic direction that is deflected only slightly eastward relative to present-day north.
Instead, the guardrail was strong enough to deflect only cars.
For grains that are even larger, their gyroradii can be ~ 1000 AU or larger and tend to be only slightly deflected from their initial trajectory.
When getting closer and approaching the southern part of the barrier, they were deflected northward, while those approaching the northern end were only slightly influenced.
Fortunately, as was elegantly demonstrated in 1980 by two British materials scientists, Michael Ashby and David Jones, when proper account is taken of the way an actual door panel deflects, constrained as it is by the door edges, it is possible to use aluminum sheet only slightly thicker than the steel it would replace and still achieve equivalent performance.
Only slightly more tacky.
He exaggerated only slightly.
