Sentence examples for slight well from inspiring English sources

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He is fiendishly polite, slight, well turned out.

But the report did offer a slight "well, it could be worse".

3. Transfer the rice to a heatproof bowl, make a slight well in the rice and then crack the egg in.

Given a defendant apparently so benign -- young and slight, well spoken, with a handsome, dark face and bright white in his almond eyes -- the prosecutor's combative strategy ran the risk of a backfire.

Trump, as he does, didn't take this slight well and, uh, freaked the fuck out and fired tweet after tweet off attacking the league and players.

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Ingrid Betancourt is small, slight, well-coutured.

It's a slight, well-acted tale in search of an epiphany.

SLIGHT, well-kempt and dressed in khakis and a powder-blue shirt, the man sitting in the dock cut the image of a schoolteacher.

SLIGHT, well-kempt in grey trousers and a powder-blue shirt, the man in the dock cut the image of an ageing schoolteacher.

We can admire "Lovejoy," slight but well made, as a fine example of another sort of craftsmanship of the past: the lighthearted detective show.

When his appropriation was cut off in 1892, Powell sent a terse telegram to Marsh demanding his resignation, a personal slight as well as a financial one.

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