Sentence examples for slight and it from inspiring English sources

However, its infrequency in the population means that its contribution to breast cancer risk is slight and it is possible that 7271T>G represents only one of a diverse array of uncommon ATM mutations leading to increased cancer risk.

Other critics have called "Art" slight, and it is.

The effect is extremely slight, and it has been measured after some earthquakes, notably the great Alaskan quake of 1964.

Perlin's conceit, while amusing, is slight, and it isn't bolstered much by the show's other entry, "Sequence".

She has always been slight and it annoys her when people comment on her frailty and interpret it as neurosis, instability, grief or an eating disorder.

But the change was slight and it still looks like the labour market in the largest economy in the world is strengthening.

The writing is not condescending in the slightest, and it is not forged in a scientific jargon that might discourage many readers from delving any further into the evolutionist world.

And if this is what you want, a compendium of incredible bon mots that don't ring true in the slightest and it thrills you to hear actors utter them ad nausea, please pay no attention to what I'm saying.

The island is so slight and remote, it seems as if it would float away into Long Island Sound were it not barely tethered to the Bronx by a single bridge.

It's so slight, and yet it causes a storm of protest, even among her fellow contestants.

Anything by a female writer featuring female characters runs the risk of being slagged off as a bit "slight" and so it was in 1963 when Mary McCarthy published The Group – Norman Mailer called it "a trivial lady writer's novel".