Sentence examples for of us slightly from inspiring English sources

"The blackout probably shifted all of us slightly," said Senator Larry E. Craig, Republican of Idaho, who said he would still work against the eminent domain proposal.

The 21-year-old was, like many of us, slightly out of touch when it came to opening up accounts online.

"This is a crazy turn of events and one that leaves many of us feeling slightly (slightly?) uncomfortable," Louise Crawford, a columnist for the newspaper, wrote on her blog, Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.

As a result, Tales of Us is slightly more mesmerising soundscape than collection of genuinely outstanding songs.

Not only do we have a limited vocabulary for describing it, but each of us responds slightly differently to different shades.

While the rest of us are slightly more likely to own a mobile home, 1 in 5 of the wealthiest Americans say they have a boat, plane or helicopter, compared with 1 in 22 in other households.

The rest of us yawn slightly, write up the umpteenth piece about cycling's and Armstrong's battered credibility and then get on with the rest of life again.

When it was announced that Nelson Mandela was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1993, the joy among some of us was slightly diminished by the Nobel committee's decision to award the prize to F. W. de Klerk as well.

In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience — a few more people slide through the door — but Facebook is finally a crude personal multimedia conglomerate machine, a ham-fisted personal nation-state machine, a reality-show machine.

A cynic will likely see these heartening displays as the equivalent of North Korean propaganda, while the rest of us grow slightly weepy as we see the beaming faces of employees so moved by the pride that comes with recognition and appreciation.

3. Microsoft's withdrawal of its bid left us slightly puzzled.