Sentence examples for slightly wanting from inspiring English sources

As romantic venues go, their ringside seats floodlit at Heathrow's Raddison hotel may seem slightly wanting.

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

I am somewhere in the middle: there have been moments when I've guffawed – "Where do you stand on Michael Buble?" "His windpipe?" – but others where I've found the series slightly wanting.

With Froome, Geraint Thomas, Leopold König, Richie Porte, Wouter Poels and Roche tasked with closing out the stage after Peter Kennaugh, Ian Stannard and Luke Rowe had exhausted themselves on the flat, Poels hoisted the white flag at the bottom of the ascent and, of the remaining quintet, Roche was found ever so slightly wanting in the closing metres.

I slightly wanted to give up just looking at it.

Levels of ever-use of contraception were slightly lower in the intervention group (18%) than in the comparison group (21%), and fertility desires were slightly higher (wants more children) (60% versus 56%, respectively).

Remove and set aside to cool slightly; you want to serve the custard warm, and it doesn't benefit from sitting around for too long.

Sherald may be the portrait artist of "American people," and Obama, looking askance, leaning slightly, may want to be a part of that record, but she is also a symbol, an aggrandizement.

Any of these candidates, to put this slightly differently, wants first to knock out all the other close ideological contenders before taking on Republicans from the other groups.

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.

When the salt water has cooled slightly (you want it to be as hot as possible without burning your skin), dip a clean cotton pad into the cup.