slighter

Example Sentences

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Seattle-area residents may have another, albeit slighter, chance to catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis Saturday evening, the Seattle office of the National Weather Service says.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024

As the storylines have become more current, they have, perhaps inevitably, become both slighter and messier.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

His most dramatic liberties were reined in; tempo fluctuations became slighter.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Wu showcases a knack for mining meaning out of the slighter essays, about her teenage job at a quaint bakery, for example, or her idiosyncratic affection for bunnies.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2022

One of the men is thinner than the other, of a slighter stature.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman