Sentence examples for slightly cross from inspiring English sources

She seemed distracted, slightly cross.

He seemed perfectly unflustered, if anything slightly cross at having been disturbed.

Happily on a drizzly Wednesday morning in south London Akinfenwa is as yet not in beast mode, instead lingering in polite and articulate interview mode (later he would briefly slip into semi-beast mode for the benefit of the Guardian snapper, flexing his pre-flexed muscles to an ever greater scale and politely adopting a slightly cross expression).

I know the face I see in photos, too, but that can't be me, because I can feel that my face is animated and lively and the one in photos is invariably slightly cross or blurry or has one puffed-out cheek because I'm in the middle of eating.

English terrorism on an English scale, the Angry Brigade were a farcical, slightly cross Dad's Army unit of muesli-slurping student radicals.

The slightly warmer summers have crossed an important threshold for plant life, so that there is now a great deal more nourishment available in the fat times.

For years people have flocked to the softly spoken, slightly cross-eyed Taliban judge in Miran Shah, the capital of North Waziristan, to adjudicate disputes and settle arguments.

Obese, bald, and slightly cross-eyed, Rabie al-Zawahiri had a reputation as a devoted and slightly distracted academic, beloved by his students and by the neighborhood children.

He'd just jump right out again, big, broad and strong, with those horn-rimmed glasses and that crazy, slightly cross-eyed smile.

He's done a picture of Marilyn Monroe formed from dead butterflies, a portrait of a slightly cross-eyed Princess Diana made from discarded lint and a tableau of Charles and Diana's wedding in which the royal family are all ants.

I asked if it was because I'm slightly cross-eyed and he said it wasn't that, but didn't explain and kept on laughing (S is not the negging type, before you go there).