Sentence examples for slight young from inspiring English sources

The shy and slight young man did not consider his daily drinking a problem.

All of a slight young woman's bones, he writes, weigh less than nine pounds.

She arrives a few minutes late, a short, slight young woman in trousers and flats.

Slight young men, they developed a system that relied on leverage rather than size or strength.

Two years later, I watched as a slight young man entered the office of Maiduguri's Special Armed Robbery Squad.

Then there is the new guy -- a slight, young North Carolinian who intends to save their dying craft.

And secondly, his appearance is all the answer I need: a slight, young-looking, 42-year-old with thick, black-rimmed glasses, wavy vertical quiff and a blue-grey smock shirt that could be part of a uniform on, say, an intergalactic space vessel.

His considerably smaller and slighter younger brother, also with dark hair and dressed in white shirt and dark tie, answered the charges more hesitantly and appeared at times to have difficulties following the proceedings.

A slight, pale young woman from Eversley, England, Marling sometimes seems to be writing with a preëmptively jaded eye.

"Our goal is a new constitution that serves the people, not the elite," said Mr. Drissi, a slight, understated young man with a dab of a beard.

He's a slight, blond young man with a killer smile and eyebrows that arch as if he's been exercising them; they're the kind of looks that are made to charm, and he does come across as a modern-day missionary, but I kept wondering whether he was supposed to be slightly untrustworthy or was just overacting.