Sentence examples for slight start from inspiring English sources

It was a slight start for the Brewers, but D'Amico made it stand up.

When I mentioned it to anybody in America, just that I was researching revenge, there was this pinch that always appeared between people's brows, and often there would be this slight start, and people would step back and say, "revenge?" The word itself is threatening to Americans, even in death penalty cases, even when you talk to victims' families.

Staged by Ant Hampton with the subtlety and sure-handedness of a seasoned magician, the play — written by Mr. Hampton, Silvia Mercuriali, Greg McLaren and Melanie Wilson — begins like a simple game of Simon Says ("Open your eyes," "Touch her") before a slight story starts to emerge.

The space was lighted, but very tight, and they moved quickly, knowing that they had only a slight head start on the marines.

One realizes with a slight, shamed start that we would now condescend to this kind of effort as belonging merely to a Y.A., or young-adult, novel.

Being prepared for the possibility of Adjustment may have given her a slight head start, but King still had to go through the same process on results day as everyone else.

Both are GE lifers; they even wore identical dark-blue jackets and light-blue shirts at this week's press conference a coincidence, they insisted.But dig deeper and some slight differences start to appear.

This has given MIPS a slight head start over rivals such as ARM.

Last year, Google Checkout debuted a holItay savings promotion in time for Cyber Monday, the monday after Thanksgiving and BlooksFriday.

There were even special traffic signals for bicyclists, giving us a slight head start through crowded intersections.

"It's in light of simple words exchanged that Adlène Hicheur finds himself condemned to this sentence," Mr. Baudouin said, without the "slightest beginning of a start" to terrorist acts.