Sentence examples for slightly to put from inspiring English sources

"We thought we'd change one or two things slightly to put them right up the pitch and it nullified them".

You may need to inflate the cuff slightly to put enough pressure on the artery to detect the pulse.

To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly.

They were slightly later to put their feet up in 2015, retaining the crown with four games left.

Slightly cheating to put Office 365 on a par with startups like Instagram (which still got to 1m faster), Hulu and Spotify; Office has a huge base already on an older version, which none of those other startups did.

It was as if the lumberjack plaids, the feathered sequined skirts, a red Mounties jacket and the organza plaid gowns were part of a private house party, in which the guests only slightly bothered to put on evening clothes and instead made use of anything available — a blanket, a pheasant's tail.

Specifically, Musk mused about a system "where it's slightly harder to put laws in place than to take them away and where laws don't automatically just live forever".

We use jsSHA2 [ 6], slightly modified to put it into a namespace.

The shoes should fit perfectly and be slightly difficult to put on.

But his punt is that a nation where expectations have sunk further than output will be sufficiently thankful for (slightly) bigger GDP plus a (slightly) smaller deficit, to put him back in No 10 to, in a phrase we will now hear endlessly, "finish the job".

It has been widely interpreted as a slightly desperate attempt to put pressure on the young environment secretary, David Miliband, to make a late kamikaze run against the chancellor.