Sentence examples for he was slight from inspiring English sources

He was slight and short and slender.

He wasn't bad-looking, but he was slight.

He was slight and sallow-skinned, in a navy sports jacket and round, dark-rimmed glasses.

He was slight and handsome, dark-eyed, wide-eyed, wide-nostrilled, looking curious and confounded, boyish.

He was slight and frail from a stroke that had left half his face paralyzed.

He was slight of build, but for some reason was known to his friends as Fats.

He was slighter and softer than his old man, gangly.

On Tuesday, he was slighted for a quarterback who has thrown seven career passes.

Rather than analyze Maddux's reluctance to pitch and wonder whether he was slighting them, the Mets reacted to the switch properly.

But he confessed to me that he was slighting tradition.

This attachment to the local scene was perhaps why he was slighted by Vasari, who in his Lives of the Artists, only mentioned him in passing.