Sentence examples for slightly too small from inspiring English sources

I am always hobbling around in shoes that are slightly too small.

"These people are deathly serious," Beano said, sprawled on a chair that was slightly too small for him.

She is drawn to garments that don't fit properly, that are slightly too small, like the shrunken jumpers she designs.

I wore a slightly too small button-down shirt, for optimal button-straining, and that romance-novel effect.

No effective plan to take bad mortgages out of the pool and restructure industry".On the ARRA (2009 stimulus):"Too little""Stimulus slightly too small.

And he had a delicate, handsome, ruddy face, its features all finely proportioned but slightly too small, too refined, for the size of his frame, suggesting delicacy.

The play opens with him sitting, Bean-like, in a slightly too-small leather armchair in the staff room of an English language school in Cambridge.

Curry paste and broth, coconut, lemongrass, ginger, garlic, peppers, chilies, coriander, cardamom, cumin, cloves, nutmeg and kaffir leaves empower the family-style servings that fill the slightly too-small tables.

Lindsay: For Lindsay's get-up, we grabbed a slightly too-small crop top, some seriously high-waisted bell bottoms and the essential puka shell necklace.

As Ms. Keal spoke, crew members preparing the stage for the next performance offered their assessments of the theater, with its slightly-too-small stage, oddly sloping ceiling and unpredictable heat.

Bras are expensive, after all, and you never know when you'll need that slightly-too-small, mango-colored strapless that was such a steal.