Sentence examples for down a slightly from inspiring English sources

The prosecutor had asked for six years, and standard practice in high-profile political trials is to hand down a slightly lesser sentence than the prosecution wants.

Well, I brought the house down — a slightly untoward surprise (even though I had aspired to it), as I had always thought of my muse as tragic.

Several have been challenged in court and a federal court last month struck down a slightly different Arizona law that banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

After years of delving deep in disco and house music territory, Dauncey has recently decided to go down a slightly different musical path.

The first comes from Juju & Jordash who take things down a slightly more acidic path, leading us to imagine what exactly would happen if one was to feed a venus fly trap a tab or seven of good, strong acid?

Each musician took the rehearsal down a slightly different path.

What happens is that he puts his buttocks down, in a slightly different position.

Demand in all categories of durable goods was down 2.5percentt, a slightly smaller drop than the 3.1percentt originally stated in a preliminary report two weeks ago.

In one, we look down from a slightly elevated perspective onto the artist, who stands with her back to us facing a glassy, slowly flowing river.

And one of the greatest pop stars of all time is sitting down at a slightly dinky piano to play one of the greatest pop songs ever written.

"If Lilly loses, the stocks will likely go down by a slightly greater amount.