Sentence examples for slight would be from inspiring English sources

"Slight" would be too weighty a word for this soap bubble of a book.

"Being a former sporting personality with a high profile in a state that is very into that kind of thing would probably give slight advantage – but slight would be the word," he said.

Even by the standards of palaeontology, one of whose early practitioners, Georges Cuvier, claimed to be able to extrapolate an entire animal from a single bone, declaring a species from evidence this slight would be ambitious.

The power of winning the affection and confidence of young men was a marked feature of the personality of Prof. Purdie, whose death was announced in NATURE of December 21 last; and no record of his life, however slight, would be complete without special reference to the wonderful insight and understanding that bound him to his students.

It was slow, because most changes, unless very slight, would be harmful, but there had been plenty of time on earth for the diversity of modern forms to have evolved by building up countless individually small genetic changes.

At one point, jurors asked whether a death ordered over a personal slight would be considered conspiracy murder.

A slight outperformance would be expected since a discount is usually required to sell a job-lot of shares.

The only risk, and it's a very slight one, would be if Jenkins were to lose his remaining kidney due to some sort of trauma.

Despite the increased costs of landlords, however, rents for many better apartments in Manhattan have declined, even on apartments where slight increases would be allowed under stabilization laws, as landlords have sharpened their competition for tenants.

(A slight improvement would be to save the diamond ace as an entry to dummy, allowing the play of the heart ace to guard against the chance of a singleton heart jack with West).

These slight differences would be natural considering the simplicity of the single rectangular fault model used by the REGARD system.