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Example sentences for "only slightly"

  • Leaves and petioles glabrous or only slightly pubescent; calyx tube and outside of calyx lobes glabrous or only slightly pubescent.

  • The gills are free from the stem, or only slightly adnexed.

  • They are known by their hard or membranaceous character and by the fruiting surface (under surface when in the position in which they grew) being smooth, or only slightly uneven, or cracked.

  • The gills are not decurrent, or only slightly so by a tooth-like process.

  • In serous meningitis a certain amount of clear fluid may escape and the brain surface may be only slightly congested.

  • Occasionally the acute inflammation is limited to the attic, Shrapnell’s membrane appearing deeply congested and bulging outwards so as to cover the processus brevis, whilst the rest of the membrane may be only slightly injected.

  • Passing to d and dd under cc gives the choice between Margin of leaves entire or only slightly undulate and Margin of leaves serrate to lobed.

  • Is only slightly depressant to the circulation.

  • Only slightly astringent; no special advantage over other iron salts.

  • Only slightly soluble in water; insoluble in alcohol.

  • Should, however, the substance be only slightly soluble in alcohol, and the above reactions fail to take place, the presence of solanine.

  • Brownish-red grains of rust; only slightly soluble in acetic acid, but easily soluble in hydrochloric acid.

  • In case the alkaloid is only slightly soluble in alcohol, there is reason to infer the presence of strychnine.

  • It is moved by trivial reasons to judge the unlawful to be lawful, the gravely sinful to be only slightly evil, that which is commanded to be only counselled, and so on.

  • As to the gravity of sin against a vincibly erroneous conscience, it is always the same as that apprehended by the conscience, unless what is seriously wrong is culpably mistaken for what is only slightly wrong.

  • They had therefore not been acted on, or only slightly acted on, by the damper air on one side, although the whole upper part was freely exposed.

  • The cotyledons appear to be only slightly heliotropic, though the hypocotyl is strongly so.

  • The radicle begins in a few weeks to enlarge into a little tuber, which then abounds with starch and is only slightly bitter.

  • In most of them the cotyledons rise hardly at all, or only slightly, at night; but those of T.

  • Petroleum ether, on the other hand, only slightly dissolves it in the cold, more on warming.

  • Chloroform sinks in water, and is only slightly soluble in that fluid (.

  • The solution, on warming, is only slightly coloured.

  • To such articles the vinegar should also be added cold, or, at furthest, should be only slightly warmed.

  • It is neutral to test-paper, does not affect lime water, and is only slightly absorbed by pure water.

  • It much resembles the ammonio-citrate, but is only slightly soluble in water, and has a rather less agreeable taste.

  • Conchiolin,'' the matrix of shells of the mollusca, is only slightly soluble in acids.

  • HCO3, is formed as shown above and also by passing carbon dioxide through a solution of the normal compound, when it is deposited as a white powder, which has no smell and is only slightly soluble in water.

  • It is insoluble in water, and is only slightly soluble in alcohol and ether.

  • The upper lip of the flower, too, is only slightly notched.

  • When gin has once become much stained, the only remedy is to re-distil it; when it is only slightly stained, the addition of a few lbs.

  • A red heat fails to volatilise it to any appreciable extent, and it is only slightly oxidised at that temperature; therefore it is not tarnished when exposed to the air.

  • Pure bread is only slightly stained by this solution; bread containing alum strikes a lavender, lilac, or purple colour, according to the quantity of the adulterant present.

  • The adductor ridge is only slightly prominent; it extends upwards only a little way above the lower end of the articular ridge, and does not form with the latter a cavity.

  • The internal surface of the shell is generally smooth, or only slightly ribbed.

  • The coracoidal grooves are large and only slightly oblique.

  • The placenta, as just stated, is absent in the monotremes and is only slightly developed in marsupials, in which animals the foetus develops to maturity in the marsupial pouch after leaving the uterus.

  • The caecum is a globular rounded pouch of nearly uniform diameter, only slightly enlarged to the right of the root of the appendix which arises from its lowest part and is pendent.

  • The apex of the pouch is usually blunt and rounded, or only slightly pointed.

  • The crescentic curve of the caecum is only slightly marked; the appendix arises from the most pendent part of the pouch and hangs downward (schema, Fig.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only slightly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beef juice; make inquiry; only another; only begotten; only daughter; only fancy; only found; only four; only from; only give; only known; only laughed; only more; only once; only remains; only right; only served; only tell; only the; only through; only used; only when; only yesterday; reach their; understood only; young queen