Sentence examples for slightly wanted to from inspiring English sources

I slightly wanted to give up just looking at it.

"About 9,000 words," I said, exaggerating slightly, wanting to impress him.

Switching gears just slightly, I wanted to ask you about something I've noticed in a lot of your novels, which is that there seems to be a small theme of people coming to New York to start their lives as adults.

Our objective differed slightly: we wanted to develop a method to deliver Wnts to a tissue that simultaneously preserved biological activity and restricted diffusion of the protein.

The budget for the campaign has been increased, Ms. Wentworth says, and even if it is "just slightly more, we wanted to do everything we could to drive results into the stores".

SARAH KUPFERBERG'S youthful rebellion was slightly unconventional — she wanted to invest in green companies, not the big industrials her parents had preferred.

For, example, if you were slightly descending and wanted to get back to level flight, what would you have to do?

He was flattered but slightly worried that she wanted to make love every night.

He explains that he wanted to "slightly vary the familiar formula for an espionage-action film".

Our story redresses the balance slightly, and I just wanted to thank Mr Varley for sorting it out," he says.

"I also wanted to slightly complicate rather than clarify the Nick situation because it's so easy to come up with trite answers – that he came from a stuffy, upper-middle-class background, nobody understood him.