smidgen

Example Sentences

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Subtle as a sledgehammer and shallow as a saucer, “Asking for It” is painted in such broad strokes that — with just a smidgen of humor — it would pass for satire.

From New York Times

The preponderance of video explainers stemming from mainstream sources like corporate TV lends YouTube a smidgen of the kind of fact-checking that the site could desperately use.

From Washington Post

The new translations are stirring a smidgen of optimism among Yiddish scholars and experts for a language whose extinction has long been fretted over but has never come to pass.

From New York Times

Our neighbor dims just a smidgen to -4.8 magnitude later in February.

From Washington Post

There was an opportunity to end the series on a high, prove some doubters wrong and head home with a smidgen of respect.

From BBC