Sentence examples for slight as from inspiring English sources

(The Southern accent is only slight, as might be appropriate for a teacher of proper English).

Stop blogging!" There are misses as well as hits here, in a show that's short and slight as well as silly.

Seasonal temperature differences on any one reef are usually slight, as are differences due to depths of water or situation on the reef.

She was as slight as a sparrow, her face often flushed beneath her bleached blonde hair.

Lincecum, slight as he is, seemed imposing by comparison, even when he wasn't throwing a ball.

He remembers each slight as if it were pasted on his locker.

But she's being a little disingenuous — she's as slight as a wren.

Progress was frustratingly slow in those days, when the skis were as slight as our knees.

Slight as his oeuvre had been, it proved impossible to forget.

The differences in category fluency were so slight as to be statistically irrelevant.

Even then Mitford, Powell and Waugh had the distance to mock its slight-as-a-bubble mentality.