Sentence examples for slightly bested from inspiring English sources

* NBC CALLS IT FOR LAMB: NBC's Steve Kornacki explains the decision, noting that Lamb slightly bested Saccone in absentee ballots from deep-red Washington County.

It's smaller, more handsome and better-sounding than most of its rivals, although the crank isn't the finest and the battery life is slightly bested by its Freeplay peers.

Gustafsson's 7-1 career mark inside the UFC is only slightly bested by Jones' 12-1 UFC record, and both men own victories against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and TKOs over Vladimir Matyushenko.

For DFE-II scenario, similar results are observed, except that the performance is slightly best for.

Six diamonds, reached by a small minority, has, just slightly, the best prospects.

At the start, it felt slightly second-best, but after half a year I really woke up to it.

If the peas inside feel slightly hard, "best to leave it for one more day," he said.

"Yankee Tavern" uses two tried-and-true character types to deliver the message: the slightly crazy best friend and the mysterious stranger.

Worse still, Allie's going to have to leave behind her slightly annoying best friend, Mary Kay Shiner; her geode collection; and her cozy elementary school.

Partly thanks to this liberation from the news-stand, she says, "some of the best creative work is coming out of customer publishing agencies" and the sector is no longer regarded within magazine circles as "being slightly second-best".

Between these often disastrous encounters he discusses his love life with a mildly contemptuous therapist (Jeffrey Tambor) and a slightly sleazy best friend (Pete Chekvala, in scenes filmed at retro Thirsty Crow bar on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles).