Sentence examples for rock slightly from inspiring English sources

I looked at Rock, slightly irked.

Such was the situation in 1634 when he painted "Pines and Rock," slightly undercutting the traditional emblem of steadfastness and endurance with a rueful, go-with-the-flow inscription: "Even if I turned into rock, I wouldn't be obstinate".

In addition to this apparent turning motion, the Moon actually does rock slightly to and fro in both longitude and latitude, and the observer's vantage point moves with Earth's rotation.

He will instinctively begin to rock slightly.

The force of the impact changes the velocity of the rock slightly, hopefully enough so that it will miss the Earth.

Like its acronym suggests, the DART probe will crash directly into the smaller Didymos asteroid while travelling at 14,000 mph (22,530 km/h), creating a crater during an impact that will hopefully send the space rock slightly off course, Rivkin said.

With the exception of "Wildest Dream" — slightly modern-rock, slightly Foo-Fightery — "Revelation" operates with its own kind of Schillinger System, an almost clinical set of chord modulations, solo-lengths and emotional progressions.

The truck rocked slightly.

She sank into the couch and rocked slightly, clutching Jeanne's unopened gift.

"I want to bring them home," said Ms. Mikhailova, smiling and rocking slightly.

The capsule pulled away and rose above the canyon of Second Avenue, rocking slightly.