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Example sentences for "slight touch"

  • Illustration: "There was a slight touch of color visible on the gracious forehead when she offered him her hand.

  • The gipsy smiled, with a slight touch of contempt at Manners's inexpertness in a mode of calculating the time, which was to him familiar.

  • Frosty, with a slight touch of his cap and a sneer.

  • We believe, if the truth were known, it was a slight touch of rouge, that Amelia thought would clench the matter, that decided his lordship against her.

  • Yet," she added with a slight touch of coquetry, "he is not bad to look upon, now I recall him.

  • She raised her clear eyes to his, with a slight touch of womanly reserve that was so incompatible with any vulgar vanity or girlish coquetry that he became the more embarrassed.

  • He leaped to his feet, picked up the breviary which had fallen from the Padre's fingers, and returned it to him with a slight touch of gentleness that was unsuspected in the man.

  • The bait stick in any case should be about two feet in length; and with this leverage but a slight touch will be required to spring the pieces.

  • A slight touch on the bait stick soon destroys this equilibrium: a flap ensues, and a dead mouse is the result.

  • Our illustration shows the trap already set, only awaiting for a slight touch at the bait to bring the heavy stone to the ground.

  • A poor man can't revel in the good things of life,' he said, with a slight touch of irritation.

  • Maybe, but it's true all the same,' he answered, with a slight touch of bitterness.

  • I have been quite happy,' Gladys replied, with a slight touch of dignity not lost upon the lawyer's wife.

  • Churchill now permitted himself a smile longer and more complacent, and Harley felt a slight touch of pity that any man should be blinded thus by conceit.

  • I have room and to spare," he said, with a slight touch of importance.

  • But I should like to say a few words upon the subject," said Jimmy Grayson, and there was a slight touch of pleading in his tone, "just as a sort of salve to my conscience.

  • Certainly he did not escape its influence, nor did he seek to do so, but as he watched her he thought there was a slight touch of feverishness to her high spirits, as if she had just escaped from some great danger.

  • You give way, you give way," said Richard with a slight touch of impatience.

  • The whole expression was grave and thoughtful, with a slight touch of shrewdness, and a cold, inquiring, calculating eye.

  • Richard smiled, with one of his dark looks of serpent subtlety, in which a slight touch of scorn mingled with an expression of triumphant cunning.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slight touch" 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:
    became clear; department commander; diuers sorts; economic forces; gold thread; marry her; more intense; potassium bichromate; should consider; slight depression; slight flush; slight frown; slight gesture; slight inclination; slight movement; slight noise; slight notch; slight sketch; slightly bent; slightly bitter; slightly different; slightly downy; slightly salted; slightly soluble; such that; true system