slighter

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

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

The slighter, swifter Sam Simmonds starts at eight after Alex Dombrandt's brush with Covid.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2022

Larger people burn more baseline calories than people who are slighter.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2021

Whoever this was, he was slighter than Eril-Fane, and sank less deeply into the down.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor