How do you use Slight in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like thin or offence, plus the exact meaning.
Slight in a sentence
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Slight meaning
- Minor; small in amount
- Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.
Synonyms of Slight
Slight vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Slight
- The main meaning on this page is: Minor; small in amount | Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful. | Minor; small in amount
- Useful related words include: thin, offensive activity, offence, offense.
- Possible Dutch translations are: onbeduidend.
- In the example corpus, slight often appears in combinations such as: slight chance, then slight, slight increase.
Example sentences (20)
A slight chance of rain before midnight, then a slight chance of rain and snow between midnight and 3am, then a slight chance of snow after 3am.
A slight chance of rain showers before 7am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 7am and noon, then a slight chance of rain showers after noon.
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 11am, then a slight chance of rain showers between 11am and noon.
A slight chance of rain and snow showers between noon and 1pm, then a slight chance of rain showers after 1pm.
But we did, it was slight, but we saw slight improvement sequentially from second to third quarter.
A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 3am, then a slight chance of snow showers.
A slight chance of showers between 1pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm.
There will be a slight cooling trend today with highs in the mid 80s then a slight warm up over the weekend with highs in the upper 80s … but nothing like what was experienced last weekend.
A slight chance of rain and snow before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain between 1pm and 4pm.
A slight chance of rain is expected before 8 p.m., then a slight chance of rain and snow between 8-11 p.m., then a chance of snow after 11 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29.
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am.
A slight chance of snow and freezing rain before 11am, then a slight chance of rain and snow between 11am and noon.
Among women, there was a slight reduction in lung and colorectal cancer but that was offset by slight increases in breast, liver and thyroid cancer.
Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Balancing mechanisms are often integrated into the rules, giving slight advantages to lagging players and slight hindrances to the leaders.
Jones would come up with his own slight modification, and the voice had slight variations between the units.
Other authors (Adams 1980, 51) have taken the opposite position, maintaining that slight unsharpness in foreground objects is usually more disturbing than slight unsharpness in distant parts of a scene.
Slight gains The Bloc made slight gains following the 2008 federal elections as they won 49 seats, one more than the amount they had before the previous parliament was dissolved.
The overall effect is to cause a slight positive charge in the immediate region of the beam where there is a deficit of electrons, and a slight negative charge around the dot where those electrons land.
According to sources interviewed, a slight dip in long-term projected revenue and a union drive might have forced Overstory management to cut.
Common combinations with slight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- slight chance 34×
- then slight 13×
- slight increase 12×
- with slight 12×
- and slight 10×
- the slight 9×
- slight improvement 7×
- be slight 7×
- was slight 6×
- see slight 6×