Sentence examples for slight blow from inspiring English sources

It was a slight blow when East took three trump tricks, but that player was now endplayed.

Prosnitz suffered a slight blow to his pride a few years ago when he moved from Brooklyn to the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

Minnesota dealt a slight blow to Romney, who hoped that Governor Tim Pawlenty's endorsement would at least deliver his own state.

She didn't know any of the other guests, and it came as a slight blow to the pride that none of the guests seemed to know her, either.

A relatively slight blow may damage the skin and underlying soft tissues, as shown by bruising, or contusion, which results from the infiltration of blood into the tissues from ruptured small vessels and by swelling caused by the passage of fluid through the walls of damaged capillaries.

Once middle school began, you were left to wonder whether or not you'd get anything at all, and unfortunately even in adulthood, years into recovery from the terrible tweens, the sense that Valentine's Day is not for you, grown up single person, can be a slight blow to your self-esteem.

Besides, contraceptive access is already in place in 28 states, and has been the law in New York for a decade, without inflicting the slightest blow to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, which has complied.

In a show that's likeable and charming but so wafer thin that the slightest gust might blow it away, Charlotte Croft plays a girl who, after her mother's death, is taken by her grandmother (Liz Crowther) to live in London.

The leaves on the trees were dry, and when even a slight breeze blew they rattled, as if a snake was moving through the branches.

Judging by the new songs Welch performs, the album continues in the bombastic vein of its predecessors, with slight tunes blown up like cumulonimbus.

We then meditated silently for half an hour, a slight breeze blowing through the open doors at our backs as we sat cross-legged on our prayer mats, trying to clear our minds.