Sentence examples for slightly to take from inspiring English sources

(Every twelve months, the Census Bureau raises the income cutoffs slightly to take inflation into account).

A friend says "he does it slightly to take the piss out of himself".

In practice, he might slow down slightly to take inventory on, say, whether his right elbow is perfectly straight.

Del Bosque had redesigned the formation slightly to take account of the absence of the appendicitis-stricken Raul.

"The previous night we had changed the route slightly to take out one tor and Charlotte Shaw criticised me for shortening it.

INSIDE PITCH JASON GIAMBI, who will need surgery on his left knee after the season, opened his stance slightly to take pressure off the knee.

For something slightly easier to take, try Cynar.

It felt slightly perverse to take much pleasure in these songs.

Instead, Eurostat, the E.U. statistics office, suggested that Portugal's 2010 deficit needed to be revised slightly upward to take into account debt held by state-owned companies.

My store-cupboard essentials... T: A big sack of good stone-ground flour, a sack of oats for porridge, and Vitam – it's the German version of Marmite and it's slightly easier to take in the morning.

"It felt slightly perverse to take people who have travelled for months, being shipped around in the back of lorries like a piece of cargo, and put them in shipping containers," he says.