Sentence examples for was slightly telling from inspiring English sources

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What was slightly telling for me was that Senanayake was the only Sri Lankan player or member of the team management not to come down and shake the hands of the England players after the game.

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He recalled his friend, Igor, who was slightly older, telling him: "Just leave it there.

"I looked straight at him and he looked straight at me, and he kept on shooting at me," Private Hirschberg, who was slightly wounded, later told the Israeli radio.

"I suppose I was slightly anxious," he told VICE News.

He used to be my boyfriend, and I admit that, at first, I was slightly embarrassed when I told my friends his name.

When I arrived, I was slightly aghast to be told that there was no electricity, no internet and barely any mobile reception, but this soon gave way to gratitude for the peaceful silence as I lay on a sun lounger outside my lodge, sipping fresh mint tea, unable to take my eyes off the surrounding landscape, all rolling, pastel pink mountains and olive trees.

When I explained that I needed to live in an area with other gay families around, he was slightly bewildered; when I told him that I wanted to be sure my children grew up among other children with gay parents, he seemed to think I was restrictively categorizing myself.

Muldoon said the nickname Michael had given his father (a term in Ireland to denote someone being slightly mad) told him that there had been a "wonderfully relaxed attitude between father and teenage son, one I now know is so difficult to establish and even more difficult to maintain".

"I was slightly afraid of cats," Mya told us earlier, "because of the claws.

"At the end of each day, I was throwing away these crates of produce — apples, lettuce, cabbage — stuff that had been bruised or was slightly imperfect in shape," McHenry told me.

Truth be told, I was slightly embarrassed that I journeyed so far to chase after some piece of movie magic that I thought I'd be able to recreate here almost 50 years after this Austrian city was caught on film.

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