Sentence examples for slightly in order to from inspiring English sources

Every now and then, they'd shift slightly in order to stay in the shade.

"It is the goddess Kali," Mrs. Dixit explained brightly, shifting the dowel slightly in order to straighten the image.

MORI asked if taxes should be increased slightly, in order to keep down the level of inflation.

This takes him to the news, which is to be delayed slightly in order to accommodate Johnson, who is only now arriving.

(These are not the couple's real names, and the details of the case have been modified slightly in order to protect Lisa's identity.

Does it make sense to cut taxes, and so stimulate the economy, when the Federal Reserve has just raised interest rates (if only slightly) in order to stop the economy from overheating?

So instead, the model adjusts Mr. Obama's national polls slightly upward, and his state polls slightly downward, in order to bring them into equilibrium.

Humans may, in fact, need to get slightly stupider in order to survive.

He'd probably had to get slightly drunk in order to drive to the Stregg residence with a gun and ring the bell.

NOTE: Serve the soup just slightly chilled in order to best taste the flavors of the fruits and the lemon verbena.

(Slightly unconvincingly, in order to get round the unlikelihood of this aristocrat's being married to a provincial bank manager, Mr. Keeping is supposed to have had a bad war — he has a "brilliant brain" but "can't take the strain").