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

In a European-style system, by contrast, a 4-point shift to the right or left might change only one party in the country’s governing coalition, prompting a slighter policy change more proportional to the electorate’s mood.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022

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

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2022

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