Sentence examples for they were slight from inspiring English sources
Faced with the highly asymmetric reality, they choke — treating mild Democratic exaggerations as if they were equivalent to outright falsehoods on the other side, treating wild misrepresentations on the GOP side as if they were slight misstatements.
At the start of the day they were slight favourites but we got Daryl Mitchell, who is a massive wicket, early and then we stuck at it.
"This is Huddersfield's big opportunity I think and I'd say they were slight favourites because of Jordan," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.
These deviations in methylation levels between matched FFPE and cryo-preserved samples cannot be due to differences in tumour cellularity as we checked that they were slight.
They also say they were slighted when Merrill doled out shares of new stocks, which were much in demand during the tech stock boom of the late 1990's.
Mr. Karzai and a triumvirate of young leaders will face an array of challenges from groups who feel they were slighted in the accord.
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Marginalia, almost by definition, seem unworthy of this attention; they are slight, dispensable, often anonymous, too often distracting.
As for the risks of either sexual abuse or physical injury onboard, they are slight but difficult to measure.
They are slight men with ordinary faces, nothing imposing, the kind one might see at any bus stop or tea stall.
