Sentence examples for is slight and from inspiring English sources

Is it because the rudder cannot act against the wind when it is stormy, but can when the wind is slight and so they shorten the sail?

Mullen is slight and wiry.

Rash is slight and shorn, bright and twinkly.

Ariane is slight and simply dressed, almost like a child.

Prime Minister Jun ichiro Koizumi is slight and dapper.

Horchler is slight and gray-haired and wears round wire-rimmed glasses befitting a librarian.

He is slight and elfish-looking, and his manners are refined.

If the latter, the thread is slighter and more dubious.

He was slight and short and slender.

Both are slight and pale.

But this, too, was slight and indistinct.