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Example sentences for "slight depression"

  • They lay but a single egg, in a slight depression in the sand, creamy brown with light brown markings (2.

  • Their eggs are either laid on the bare ground or in a slight depression, scantily lined with grass (2.

  • Is simply a lining of grass in a slight depression in the ground.

  • Durnford, however, who found them breeding in Chupat at the end of October, tells us that the nest is a slight depression in the ground, sometimes lined with a few blades of grass.

  • The nests were bulky platforms, composed of sticks of various sizes, with but a slight depression in the centre, and sparingly lined with a few bunches of dried grass.

  • The nest is a slight depression on the moist ground close to the water, and lined with a little withered grass.

  • John Murdoch (1885) says: The nest was always well hidden in the grass and never placed in marshy ground or on the bare black parts of tundra, and consists merely of a slight depression in the ground, thinly lined with dried grass.

  • It is carefully polished all over, so as to show no traces of its having been chipped out, except a slight depression on one face, and this is polished like the rest of the blade.

  • There is a slight depression worked on each face.

  • The cloaca gives off a pair of much-branched respiratory trees, which are constantly supplied with water by the contractions of the cloaca.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slight depression" 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:
    four slices; high antiquity; knew him; large assemblage; must first; practical wisdom; reading aloud; real mother; rump white; slight change; slight changes; slight degree; slight hollow; slight modifications; slight noise; slight notch; slight resemblance; slightly beaten; slightly compressed; slightly convex; slightly downy; slightly flattened; slightly soluble; slightly tapering; slightly wounded; walk away