Sentence examples for thought lightly from inspiring English sources

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Funny-looking guy, Mr. Beresford thought, lightly touching his clean-shaven lip.

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He wanted to do this so no politician would ever think lightly of even considering war again.

This is a life threatening condition, do not brush it off or think lightly of it.

"It's not something I've thought about lightly," said Fowler, when handing in his request.

"I think Tread Lightly is just a veiled form of extreme environmentalism," said Brad Lark, publisher of extreme4x4.com, a Web site devoted to off-roading.

I'm really all right, she would think, carefully, lightly, as she pulled the key from the ignition, trying not to examine the sensation too closely or lose it with any sudden movement, as if it were a thin-filmed shiny bubble poised in her chest.

A lot of people think very lightly about this: I did it and I'll just ask Allah to forgive me!!

I thought we were lightly chewing the rag.

The lightly encoded thought process, then, is that if hygge is uniquely Danish, and hygge can only be enjoyed by insiders, then migrants and outsiders will destroy the nation's hyggelig atmosphere, and therefore effectively destroy Denmark.

I thought Cameron got off lightly on this open attack courtesy of Nick Clegg, and Gordon Brown, who made only a passing reference to the fact that a Tory leader currently in elected office has been promoting plans more radical than Clegg's.

"We felt that the punishment didn't fit the crime, we thought they got off lightly," he said.

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