Sentence examples for slight like from inspiring English sources

(The new collection itself showcases a handful of autobiographical pieces: about lackluster first jobs, lackluster holidays, lackluster honeymoons. They are playful and witty but slight, like ironic stick figures doodled in the margins of the urgent critical work).

Hold in both buttons at the same time until you see a slight square-like figure appear on the screen that looks like the area you'd like to capture.

In situ AFM images of the sample in PBS showed a stable surface at potentials in the passive region and around the potential corresponding to the current increase and slight etching-like dissolution around the carbides at higher potentials.

Trumka's a big, strongly built son of the coal fields; Padilla a slight, waif-like women from Bogota, Colombia.

Smooth membrane structures having a mostly clear interior with a slight web-like arrangement are also found in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum and have been shown to be the replication complexes for this virus (26 ).

Butyl benzyl phthalate has been shown to have only slight, hormone-like effects in rats at doses of ≥ 100 mg/kg/day (Nagao et al. 2000), or ~ 100,000-fold higher than the levels seen by Swan et al. (2005).

When you cry or are sad, try to make a slight wolf-like whining sound.

Although it contained some of his finest prose, the letter also took Bosie to task for slights like failing to serve him lemonade when he was ill.

It has sparked an entire thread of users squealing on alleged dealers for slights like "always selling under", selling "a dodgy batch of speed" and being "literally the worst drug dealers ever".

At a restaurant, he let his then-baby boy taste a dab of butter on his finger, and "one woman almost reached up to stop me — little slights like that".

Bejar said that most of the reports they hear about have to do with unintentional slights like posting an unflattering picture of someone.