Sentence examples for slightly past from inspiring English sources

Hitchcock pushed slightly past physical plausibility — and went further past it in "The Birds" — but he didn't abandon it.

Hitchcock pushed slightly past physical plausibility and went further past it in "The Birds"—but he didn't abandon it.

I tended to choose things that were slightly past, out of fashion, which would make it more distant," he said.

Slightly past 8 am, I was finally dressed and ready to go, and our tree hero, Jordan, pulled up to my apartment building in a large truck, fully outfitted with collection gear and tools.

The pan-seared sea scallops, an entree, were a perfect balance of caramelized sweetness and fresh, surprisingly earthy bites of the sea; but the steamed mussels in Frangelico shallot broth, another appetizer, were tough and, worse, tasted slightly past prime.

It is a behemoth, weighing in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces, 1,350 pages, 4,300 articles by 680 authors from Abbot, Bernice, the photographer, to slightly past Zabar's (described, with commendable accuracy, as "often crowded").

Development abates slightly past Harriman as NY 17M continues with a slight southward bent towards its final junction with NY 17 just outside of the Harriman village limits in the town and village of Woodbury.

Magath has done more than humanly possible with a squad full of youngsters, slightly past-it veterans and Kevin Kuranyi.

Robbie Coltrane stars as Paul Finchley, part of a slightly past-it comedy double act who's still well known enough to have his catchphrases yelled to him in the street.

No one is going to care if you haven't been to the local bakery for sourdough, or if all you have for the (entirely unnecessary, if delicious) cheese course is a wedge of slightly past-it cheddar and some Branston pickle.

If the fight does take place, it would be met with outsized expectations, especially with the likelihood that Mayweather would mundanely box rings around a slightly past-his-prime, less refined Pacquiao.