Sentence examples for is only lightly from inspiring English sources
The statue of Eros is usually smothered with tourists, but today it is only lightly coated.
Moshe is only lightly wounded, but while he is being stitched up at the hospital he and Yudi hear the news about Rosenbaum's death.
Although some states forbid prospective parents to use facilitators, California allows the practice, and the industry is only lightly regulated there.
The world of these neo-fascists is only lightly sketched in, and the burden of the movie falls on Gosling, who can bear it.
Although the exhibition's larger theme is only lightly sketched in — through portraits of and works by Diego Rivera, Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Tina Modotti, and others in Kahlo's circle — it is the artist herself who best embodies the renaissance.
The little girl who takes the reader through A Child of Books wears an uncomplicated sailor's pinafore, and her plaited hair is only lightly sketched out with a few lines.
They would have spotted that, while Kunduz's unruly local militia has a fine fleet of tanks, and while Kunduz is still about the safest city in the country, the 250-strong German contingent is only lightly-armed.More was expected of NATO when it took over ISAF last August.
Contexts are only lightly sketched.
The militants were only lightly armed.
Soon, the stadium was only lightly populated.
The northern plains have been only lightly settled.
