Sentence examples for little slight from inspiring English sources

To many, he seemed a little slight for the job.

"I had a little slight pain, but not much.

But those who want something richer – a world in microcosm – may find The Wicked Boy just a little slight.

The two worked on trying to get Tymity to not take every little slight or upset so seriously; Tymity, an eighth grader, recently aced a science exam.

Most often "Mortem" just lacks bite, and the dedicated leads seem at times a little slight for the staging of a struggle at eternity's edge.

There have been late-breaking suggestions that the adorable "Juno" will triumph, but it is a little slight to go home with all the marbles, no?

Yet Trenton's mayor also remembers the little slights.

At a restaurant, he let his then-baby boy taste a dab of butter on his finger, and "one woman almost reached up to stop me — little slights like that".

We all have to let go of small injustices now and then to smooth things over with our friends, but I suspect that there are a lot of women out there who are habitually overlooking little slights delivered by men who really, honestly don't mean anything by it.

Little slights gnawed at her. Sitting in the audience at the Atlanta Convention Center in October as Mr. Cobb and Mr. Levy were introduced on a panel of local technology executives, she bristled as Mr. Cobb was introduced last, even though he was not sitting at the end of the dais.

"It's the same when you are a woman in the military and you put up with the little slights -- the hesitation to salute, soldiers calling you mom instead of ma'am, hearing the old debate about whether we belong in the military and then some event happens to you, real sexual harassment, and that puts you over the top and you are out of here," she said.