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Example sentences for "slight degree"

  • To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

  • To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

  • The speech suggests a slight degree of aphasia.

  • These may be a slight degree of the form of wedge fracture last described; such a one is depicted in plate XXII.

  • There was a slight degree of muscular atrophy.

  • The scar was a little painful, and there was a slight degree of hypesthesia of foot and lower leg.

  • He changed his mind, then," returned the other, as one expresses a slight degree of surprise at hearing that which was new to him.

  • Momentum being weight, multiplied into velocity, there were some glimpses visible, of a nature to produce a slight degree of expectation that the last might yet be resisted.

  • No: curiosity, pure female curiosity, a little quickened by the passion which is engendered among the vulgar by the possession of a slight degree of instruction, was really at the bottom of her researches.

  • The black fox of North America likewise depressed its ears in a slight degree.

  • But the order was countermanded by the will, or rather by a later acquired habit, and all the muscles were obedient, excepting in a slight degree the depressores anguli oris.

  • In some cases the corners of the mouth are depressed, but often only in a slight degree.

  • The shape of these pockets is such as to enable them to hold the cotton with a slight degree of pressure against the slides, thus insuring contact between them.

  • To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

  • In a slight degree, it is frequently met with among the poorer classes, and arises from the patient having been compelled to carry heavy burdens in early childhood, or otherwise subjected to severe labour.

  • But if they could yield to a sideway thrust, even in a slight degree, they would become squeezed and folded to any amount if subjected for a sufficient number of times to the repeated action of the same force.

  • When unripe it has a slight degree of bitterness, and it is believed to be wholesome; a piece of the root eaten raw is a good remedy in nausea.

  • A curious disease has attacked my left eyelid and surrounding parts: a slight degree of itchiness is followed by great swelling of the part.

  • The MandarĂ© root is here called Nyumbo, when cooked it has a slight degree of bitterness with it which cultivation may remove.

  • Boitard and Corbie; it pouts but little, and is characterised by the habit of violently hitting its wings together over its back,--a habit which the English Pouter has in a slight degree.

  • Yet now, strange to say, this once abominated personage is spoken of with no slight degree of respect.

  • People, with Bibles in their hands, not unfrequently visit me, enquiring with much earnestness and with no slight degree of simplicity for the writings of the great Doctor Martin, whom indeed some suppose to be still alive.

  • We have just been reading, with no slight degree of interest, that simple but wonderful piece of autobiography, entitled Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners, from the pen of the author of Pilgrim's Progress.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient castle; different words; great depth; new edition; passed along; second look; simple substance; slight change; slight changes; slight depression; slight elevation; slight excess; slight flush; slight frown; slight gesture; slight inclination; slight noise; slight pause; slight smile; slightly bitter; slightly flattened; slightly hairy; slightly pubescent; slightly salted; slightly wounded; state power