Sentence examples for slight person from inspiring English sources

"A little woman" and "a slight person" were among the playwright's visualizations.

It is irritating to me that the word "shrimp," when not applied to the long-tailed crustacean of the genus Crangon, means "a small or unimportant person" (the American Heritage Dictionary), "a very small slight person" (the Oxford Desk Dictionary) and "a diminutive or puny person... chiefly contemptuous" (the Oxford English Dictionary).

Evidence has been building that slight person-to-person variations in these genes can also help explain variability in sleep cycles.

In a world wide web filled with righteous indignation about every goddamned slight a person with a modicum of success commits, why are people only now paying attention to Allen's crimes?

According to such a definition, someone who believes that he has suffered a slight from a person who is not entitled to do so, etc., will become angry.

I always feel that it's a slight when a person says to writers that they "write the way they speak".

Again, of course you don't have to, but not doing so can often be misconstrued as a slight on that person.

What starts out as a slip of the tongue, a small slight from one person to another, sets a process in motion that slowly (or quickly) permeates a relationship and begins to define its tone.

A polished courtier, Villiers earned the nickname "Tiger" among his party for his vehement support of the king; although as Fanny Burney observed, his "remarkably slim, slight and delicate person" did not match the nickname.

There is a slight increase as persons lose capacity – with a jump to 8.1 hours a week for persons in category six of the functional hierarchy.

All the barely concealed rage that used to make him so volatile has been transferred to Owen Farrell, who still plays as if he owes every member of the opposition a good hammering for slights against his person in times gone by.