Sentence examples for slight something from inspiring English sources
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — At the Winter Olympics, medals are won by centimeters and fractions of a second — margins of victory so slight, something that seems as innocuous as a cough or sniffle can unravel plans a lifetime in the making.
The show turns on him being spurned by the President-elect and denied the promised post of Secretary of State, but it's clear that he is a man in search of a slight, something that will spark his favored machinations of manipulation and revenge.
"What the fuck?" Growing up, Alison was slight and slender, something she frequently bragged about "to the confusion of her boy peers," as she recalled.
"It strikes me there's a slight chance something will get done, but only because I think Grassley and Baucus are adamant that something get done," said Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, who offered a similar bill in the House.
What no one outside of Backstrom's family knew was that he spoke with a slight stutter, something that persists to this day.
He walked up with a slight swagger — something between the new gun in town and Perry Mason — and his first questions were delivered in a sinister Texas drawl; throughout the hearing, he shifted gears between this accent and his normal one (Brooklyn-Harvard), according to the dramatic voltage he felt was required.
Gazing at one of Kristalova's sculptures feels like cuddling under the covers with the slight suspicion something may be lurking beneath the bed.
But if there is a slight or something that can affect me in any negative manner then I will and have in the past dealt with it.
7. If there's any slight clue something ticks her off, encourage her to spill out a little disappointment and anger.
When it ended, she was left with memories of those slights and something more.
The slightest effort -- something as simple as pulling a few pairs of pants from the dryer -- required her to sit for 10 minutes and recover before she'd have the strength to fold them.
