Sentence examples for for so slight from inspiring English sources

For so slight an excuse as this, soumak rugs for a long time were confusingly sold as "Cashmeres".

For a narrative so slight, "Sweet Storm" stays with you like the freshness following a summer cloudburst.

The difference in mass is so slight for ordinary chemical reactions that mass conservation may be invoked as a practical principle for predicting the mass of products.

He joined the police department in 1933, two years after Al Capone had been sentenced to prison for tax evasion.He was so slight that he stuffed himself with bananas and gallons of water to make the force's 150-pound minimum weight.

At first Etienne mistakes one of the Maheu children, 15-year-old Catherine, for a boy, because she is so slight and her puberty has been delayed by the physical strain of her job as a tram-cart pusher at the bottom of the pit.

For instance, Alice said she "started to have slight tummy upsets, so slight that, well, I just ignored them for quite a while" (Alice: diagnosed 2006; aged 73 at interview; treatment: potentially curative surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy).

Sometimes the incremental changes are so slight that they aren't noticeable for decades.

So slight, in fact, that it was statistically irrelevant — except for bragging rights.

For the first time, I noticed that he walked with a slight sway — so slight as to be almost invisible — but one that subtly evoked the stylized movements of the czardas.

"He was so slight of build.

The decline is slight – so slight that the Office for National Statistics describes it as statistically negligible.