Sentence examples for slightly absent from inspiring English sources

I always felt science was slightly absent in the conversation.

On Monday she was more robust if slightly absent compared with her colleagues: the magnificent dancers, worthy of their own hourlong performance, and her band, outfitted in shimmering tops and matching white headpieces.

He played at being naïve and slightly absent-minded, to give the impression that he needed people's help to get the job done.

It's just something that you do maybe when you're meant to be doing something else or when you're not full concentrated on that one task so you have a slightly absent-minded distraction.

Thanks to the stimulus, overall investment in highway, bridge and transit projects was up 12 percent through November 2009, and the market should continue to be stable, if not grow slightly -- absent additional state and local financing cuts -- through this year.

In S. brevipes, the form of the glandular dots is variable: they may be absent, slightly underdeveloped or obscurely formed with age.

Liza Minnelli quivered slightly as she absent-mindedly messed about with her Balenciaga dress.

alphitophora Ellipsoid, 7.5 10 × 4.5 5.5 μm 4 Slightly spinulose, clamped Spinulose Absent See Desjardin (1995); growing on fern debris M. alphitophora var.

In aquathermolysis, water at high temperatures or in the form of steam plays a crucial role, and the oil viscosity reduces only slightly if water is absent (Wang et al. 2010; Maity et al. 2010).

Proboscis long and slightly curved, apical pseudolabellae absent [ 3].

Of the known genes, two (SDF2L1 and NINJ1) were also expressed in undifferentiated cells whereas the other six (EMP3, SLC7A7, Pitx1, Pitx2, Msx1, and NPY) were absent or only slightly expressed in undifferentiated hESCs (Fig. 4A).