Sentence for slightly | Use slightly in a sentence

Slightly sentence example. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use slightly in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for slightly.

• He shuddered slightly. (10)
• Timothy gaped slightly. (10)
• Lucy slightly shuddered. (10)
• She had shuddered slightly. (10)
• She slightly affected mine. (10)
• Aminta slightly raised her hand. (10)
• Once it struck him she nodded slightly. (10)
• He then bowed to Vittoria slightly and fled. (10)
• At this Lady Jocelyn looked slightly relieved. (10)
• His eyelids drooped a little, his brows rose slightly. (8)
• Robert was but slightly affected by the intelligence. (22)
• At one part of the document her forehead wrinkled slightly. (10)
• Juliana said, she was but slightly ill, would soon recover. (10)
• Soames, impassive, slightly supercilious, did not stay long. (8)
• Slightly flushed, she kissed Felix with an air of abstraction. (8)
• Michael sat down on the bed, still slightly stunned by his fall. (12)
• They were slightly dissenting as De Craye stepped into the hall. (10)
• They were slightly stupefied by the unwonted mention of her mother. (10)
• He stopped, turned slightly from me, and put his hand up to his brow. (8)
• To those unaccustomed to his private life it was slightly miraculous. (8)
• He had resumed the patient attitude which so slightly suggested mules. (8)
• She called his attention to it, slightly wondering at his impatience. (10)
• Angelo laid the blue stilet up his wrist, and slightly curled his arm. (10)
• His silvered head and beard moved slightly to the efforts of his brain. (8)
• Rose had slightly awakened him: this letter was blank day to his soul. (10)
• The prisoner started slightly and a look of anxiety came into his face. (1)
• As she asked the question she turned her face about and slightly upward. (1)
• Lavender arrived at the edge of the pond slightly in advance of the crowd. (8)
• His eyelids droop slightly, but his eyes are keen and his expression astute. (8)
• Elizabeth, after slightly surveying it, went to a window to enjoy its prospect. (4)
• March felt this to be a fine turn, and his voice trembled slightly in saying it. (9)
• Shelton, who knew the lady slightly, noticed that they spoke of her as in the past. (8)
• So Shibli Bagarag leaned slightly on a cushion of a couch, and narrated as followeth. (10)
• She started slightly on seeing Herbert, whom she had taken for a coastguard, she said. (10)
• He frowned slightly, feeling for the nerves of his fishes, whom he did not wish startled. (8)
• His lady slightly ruffled him at breakfast in a letter saying that she wished to join him. (10)
• It struck her as slightly comic, not knowing that the little scene was the outcome of that word. (8)
• This metrical form is introduced, slightly changed and inverted, in the upper voices at A and B. (3)
• With her round blue eyes fixed on him, and her lips just parted, she had a slightly vacant look. (8)
• It was Winton, who had come up from behind the shelter, and stood, with eyebrows slightly raised. (8)
• Her face was rather long and very pale, and her eyebrows arched and dark and always slightly raised. (8)
• The right wing of my own regiment was thrown slightly backward to threaten the flank of the assault. (7)
• They said some words, now and then, indistinguishable to the others; in speaking they smiled slightly. (9)
• And, kicking the cat slightly with the pointed tip of his patent leather boot, he took his huge form away. (8)
• He bowed slightly to Isabel, who returned his politeness, and exchanged faint nods, or glances, with the ladies. (9)
• He moved with a slow, pondering step, and carried his shaggy head bent downwards from shoulders slightly rounded. (9)
• He was represented in very perfectly cut clothes, with slightly crooked elbows, and race-glasses slung across him. (8)
• By introducing sand this contraction is reduced, but the addition of too much will decrease the strength slightly. (17)
• However, one cannot go wrong in using a plain board casing ¾ inch by 3⅝ inches, which has slightly rounded corners. (17)
• He saw a round little face with broad cheekbones, flower-blue eyes, short lamp-black lashes, and slightly parted lips. (8)
• He was about to say so when he noticed a gentleman in khaki scrutinizing him with lively eyes slightly injected with blood. (8)
• Swaying slightly from side to side, with billowing bag, it gathered speed, and, turning a corner, took road for the country. (8)
• For the moment she affects to consider herself unworthy; and it is excuseable that she should be slightly alarmed at her prospect. (10)
• He came in, splashed all over, smelling slightly of stables; soon after, Margit appeared, fresh and serene, but Rozsi did not come. (8)
• He slightly fancied he might have given offence, though he was well acquainted with Vernon and had a cordial grasp at the parting. (10)
• For this I have to study the grammar harder than any of them, for my Italian is always in my way with its slightly differing forms. (14)
• Old Jolyon held up his hand; dark-rimmed glasses depending between his finger and thumb quivered slightly with a suggestion of menace. (8)
• Cecil slightly lifted his hat, with the short projection of the head of the stately peacock in its walk, and passed out of the garden. (10)
• The Major delivered this culminating remark with a well-timed deflection of his forefinger, and slightly turned aside when he had done. (10)
• The face of the rider, turned slightly away, showed only an outline of temple and beard; he was looking downward to the bottom of the valley. (1)
• From the Confederate side this point was commanded by two batteries posted on a slightly lower elevation beyond a creek, and a half-mile away. (1)
• He had armoured his face now in a slightly startled quizzicality, as though, himself detached, he were watching the adventure from a distance. (8)
• The regular features, now slightly flushed with the fever, of the patient in her charge, on the contrary, were constantly varying in expression. (5)
• Beyond the cornfields, on slightly higher ground, was a thin forest, with breaks here and there in its continuity, denoting plantations, probably. (7)
• Treat the hardwood trim, such as oak, chestnut, ash, and the like, with an oil stain; rub in a filler, stained slightly darker, and then shellac. (17)
• She had the quiet but rather dull look of people slightly deaf, and she had perhaps been stupefied by a life of unalloyed prosperity and propriety. (9)
• The valleys were clear, defined to the shadows of their verges, the distances sharply distinct, and with the colours of day but slightly softened. (10)
• With the profundity of one not too long for any age, Jolyon perceived that under slightly different surfaces the era was precisely what it had been. (8)
• He was a quiet, well-mannered youth, invaluable just then to Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace, a woman never happy unless slightly leading a genius in strings. (8)
• His legs, slightly parted and straight along the ground, were covered upward to the knees with a mass of debris which towered above his narrow horizon. (1)
• He passed into the foyer, and from that came into the library, where he showed against the dark background in an attitude of entreaty slightly burlesqued. (9)
• In order to obtain some sleep, he consented to blame himself slightly, in the style of the enamoured historian of erring beauties alluding to their peccadilloes. (10)

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