Sentence examples for slightest thing from from inspiring English sources

The slightest thing from the outside world could trigger a reaction or worse, death.

"The slightest thing that goes wrong from now on is going to be amplified and shouted from the heavens, so even if the thing is now cured - which by all accounts it is - it's going to be a problem," says Terry Gander, of Jane's Infantry Weapons.

In his 1839 book about the natural history of sperm whales, Thomas Beale, a surgeon aboard a whaleship, described them as "a most timid and inoffensive animal readily endeavouring to escape from the slightest thing which bears an unusual appearance".

Always learn from any useful source, the slightest thing can be helpful.

Not that voters know the slightest thing about her.

The "slightest thing" is the forced baptism and later kidnapping by the church of 6-year-old Edgardo Mortara from his Jewish parents in Bologna in 1858.

But they don't forgive us the slightest thing".

Quoting from the Scouts' handbook, Stevens declared that "it is plain as the light of day that neither one of these principles—'morally straight' and 'clean' says the slightest thing about homosexuality".

The meme is old and tired: it's from the same school of thought that sees women as overly emotional creatures with an equilibrium so delicate, the slightest thing upsets them.

"We could start screaming and yelling over the slightest thing," Lewis says.

Mao replied that neither Gorky nor Stalin knew the slightest thing about peasants.