Sentence examples for sometimes lightly from inspiring English sources

A rain falls, sometimes lightly, sometimes in an exhilarating downpour: pure spectacle.

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron.

The color is deep blue, sometimes lightly dusted with white — "like pieces of the sky," our grandmothers told us.

As in his nude studies, his pastels of dancers were sometimes lightly tinted over an energetic charcoal drawing, or were otherwise densely built up in crusty layers of brilliant, unnatural hue.

BACK in the day, most New York galleries coasted from Memorial Day to June 30 with a hastily flung-up group show, usually of gallery artists, sometimes lightly coated with a summery theme, and afterward closed until Labor Day.

All the while, Mr. Phelps's left hand was flying its own imaginative course, usually aboard a metal slide but sometimes lightly pressing notes into the fretboard or reaching to detune a string.

It was steamed, sometimes fried lightly, then drizzled in good olive oil and fried garlic, perhaps a few chilli flakes.

Gliding through the festive crowds, sometimes leaning lightly on the arm of a companion, they exuded a timeless chic.

He wanted to study and set down on paper everything the human frame would allow, in a single line or sometimes several, lightly tinted with watercolour or highlighted in deeper blood-red or purple tones.

"I shut myself in my room," Bielsa said, "turned off the light, closed the curtains and I realised the true meaning of an expression we sometimes use lightly: 'I want to die.' I burst into tears.

"I turned off the light, closed the curtains, and I realised the true meaning of an expression we sometimes use lightly: 'I want to die.' I burst into tears.