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
He was slighter than Bun, heavily freckled, but he had Bunny’s sandy hair and his sharp little nose.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
