Sentence examples for slightly shut from inspiring English sources

His face had a kind of parchment translucence, and his left eye was slightly shut.

Keep your door slightly shut.

Make sure you close, or slightly shut, the door of the room you're using.

But this heater can warm a medium-size room nicely for hours on a small propane cylinder, and when I bumped it slightly, it shut off without a stink.

Why can't we live like the people in Canada, who are slimmer and only slightly colder?" Shut the fuck up, hippie.

Push your tongue against the top of your mouth, and at the same time pushing your mouth shut slightly.

The company will close a plant that produces analog computer chips from July 2 through July 23, and will briefly shut a slightly smaller chip plant from June 30 to July 7, a spokeswoman, Kim Quirk, said late Tuesday.

Enjoy isn't the right word, exactly, but I definitely appreciated The Day Britain Stopped, although for anybody whose commute from Hard Day At The Office to hard-earned G&T involves slightly more than shutting a door on the on-duty telly and walking down a corridor towards the off-duty telly, I imagine the grim reality may have been somewhat harder to bear.

Paul Scott, vice president of the Plug-in America advocacy group, also said that some cars had shut down because slightly elevated battery temperatures set off a safety mechanism.

When they placed the altered SCN9A gene in kidney cells, which serve as blank slates because they don't have this sodium channel, they found that the cells grew sodium channels that were "slightly less efficient" at squeezing shut after they had let sodium in and triggered the neuron, Woods says.

Mother's eyes were shut, her expression meditative, slightly sunken.