Sentence examples for slightly of a from inspiring English sources

She showed tailored gray trousers with knit shells or diagonally closed cropped jackets that hinted slightly of a Japanese influence.

Stewart uses cognac in her soaking liquid: as with Heath's sherry, it's not a bad combination, smacking slightly of a festive eggnog.

I tell him he reminds me, slightly, of a meatier James McAvoy, that there's a physical similarity, but he disputes this.

It is less flashy than the Focus (which, for all its brilliance, does still smack slightly of a design seminar staffed by men with ponytails) and more appealing in many other respects.

While the Lil Bub album smacks slightly of a traffic chasing marketing campaign, and Meow the Jewels is a gesture of goodwill (donations to its Kickstarter go to victims of police brutality and neglected animals), previously samples of animals in song have been used for their atmospheric, musical value.

Does it reek, ever so slightly, of a kind of regressive puritanism?

He joked that show's strapline should be: "Sherlock, coming back to you on BBC1 as slightly less of a dick, starring slightly-less-of-a-dick Benedict Cumberbatch".

There's something about her that reminds me of Diane Keaton, and also slightly of Helen Hunt – a sort of winning nervousness.

One to three correct answers: Slightly less of a bummer.

Ejiofor His sexuality felt slightly more of a tangent.

Offering up something of an explanation, Moffat added: "Dr Watson becomes slightly more of a dick".