Sentence examples for over a slight from inspiring English sources

Then, over a slight hill was the patron's dream house.

("I've never got over a slight sense of fright at the sight of one of those things," he says).

I came at them over a slight rise, and in the flat light the rocks seemed compressed together, like a silent, brooding crowd.

As they came over a slight rise, a sheet of standing rainwater was revealed in an old buffalo wallow; a coyote lit out across the water with unbelievable acceleration, leaving fifteen yards of pluming rooster tails behind him.

But every gun collected — and turned over to the police to be destroyed — is a gun not found by a curious child, not reached for in a fit of anger over a slight on the street.

The French news media said he had been distraught over a slight demotion in the Gault & Millau guide, one of the world's most influential arbiters of culinary excellence, and was worried that he could lose a star in the next edition of the Michelin guide, widely considered the most powerful of them.

The proof carries over with a slight modification and we present it here for the reader's convenience.

With a slight over-representation from Scandinavia.

Thought-provoking, despite a slight over-reliance on the ethical "trolley problem".

Similarly, refusal rates remained fairly constant over the study period although a slight increase over the course of the study can be observed.

Results showed that Witepsol H15 produced nanoparticles with initial mean diameters between 270 and 1000 nm, yet over time, a slight increase occurred, but without occurrence of aggregation.