Sentence examples for only a grain from inspiring English sources

Jurors said they assigned only a "grain of truth" to testimony by Gregory Coleman, a former classmate of Mr. Skakel's at Elan, a school for troubled youths in Maine, who said Mr. Skakel once told him: "I am going to get away with murder.

The laser beam the groups have dreamed up could drag an object the size of only a grain of salt or smaller, but experts say it could provide a new tool for manipulating tiny objects such as cells.

Applicability of common used creep fatigue damage models for life evaluation was discussed based on the obtained experimental results and only a grain boundary sliding model could evaluate the lives within a small scatter.

Similarly, there's only a grain of truth in the claim that President Obama dismissed the National Day of Prayer ceremony.

But let's not forget that modern humanity only represents a grain of sand in the sandcastle of life on Earth.

A woman's sacrifice is nothing — only like a grain of sand.

Open Up Your Arms, due to be the second single from this new Island signing in early 2012, is fabulous, and reminds us, if anything, of the Last Shadow Puppets – ie neo-60s MOR, only with a grain of a nod and a wink from the indie/alternative side of the fence to appease those uncomfortable with her being straight mainstream fodder.

The legend of Payasam – where Krishna wins a game of chess against a king and then when asked to name his prize asks only that a grain of rice be placed on the first square of the board, two on the next square and then double the quantity on each successive square – illustrates the power of exponential numbers.

This may be due to the reason that AFM measures the grain size on the sample surface only and a grain may contain several crystals aligned in the same direction, i.e., have same orientation, and two grains are separated by grain boundaries because of misalignment of the crystals by differing their orientation.

It only takes a grain of fentanyl snorted from the bottom of a baggie to kill someone.

While under waterless etching conditions only a few grain boundaries are attacked by the etchant, the electrochemical etching procedure selectively removes all grain boundaries.