Sentence examples for slight as a from inspiring English sources

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

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

The comment sparked a lot of criticism from those who saw the slight as a dig on Holtkamp's gender.

She is five-six ("or I used to be"), and, at sixty-eight, she is as slight as a sparrow.

A woman is as "young and slight as a watercolor, a mere gesture of bones and features".

If they do buy it, it may be in a form as slight as a mobile ringtone.

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

When his appropriation was cut off in 1892, Powell sent a terse telegram to Marsh demanding his resignation, a personal slight as well as a financial one.

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

Those could turn on matters as weighty as gay rights, or as slight as an ordinance requiring dog owners to clean up after their pets.

He's committed himself to the displays of King David's cagey brutality, chalking up every slight as an act to be avenged.