Sentence examples for slight raise from inspiring English sources

No working stiff would sniff at such a slight raise.

He will receive a slight raise from the $391,000 he made last season.

"It's a slight raise of one shoulder, a fragment that slips out of a full gesture," Dr. Ekman said.

Knowing self-awareness is conveyed by the slight raise of an eyebrow, the sideways smile that says you're not taking it too seriously.

Jack McKeon, whose slight raise on a one-year contract was not an appropriate reward for the team's play in 1999, should nevertheless have fun again.

One executive involved in the negotiations said, "Whether he took a slight cut or got a slight raise, it's nobody's business".

He hides it well behind the slight raising of an eyebrow.

There was another occasion in Scotland when there was a slight raising of eyebrows as we were checking in.

The recently opened museums won't be affected; all received slight raises to their budgets, which range from about $2 million in Colchester to $3.5 million in Margate and $4 million in Wakefield.

However, it is also hard not to interpret the messages as a slight raising of the stakes in the ongoing debate about albums being withheld from streaming services: making sure fans know who's responsible for an album not being accessible on their service of choice, and perhaps tacitly encouraging them to protest about it.

The capsular process of the lower incisor, a slight raising of the mandibular bone at the back end of the incisor, near the coronoid process, is small.