Example sentences for: slightest

How can you use “slightest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The day was sultry, without the slightest breeze to create even a suggestion of a cat's paw on the surface of Sheepshead Bay; I caught about twenty-odd fluke, which just lay there, scarcely my notion of game fishing.

  • The stock market is certainly reacting faster than ever to the slightest hint of good or bad news.

  • None of the day's coverage of the Willey letters pays the slightest heed to the well-known phenomenon of even physically abused women having trouble expressing their animosity towards their abusers or physically separating from them.

  • It is not in the slightest way suggested that picking up citations from other works is in any way curious or reprehensible—anyone would be a fool to research any subject without relying on the scholarship that has gone before—but one would have expected the DARE to be found among books like Farmer and Henley's Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues , Chapman's New Dictionary of Slang , Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang , and the others listed.

  • A: I don't have the slightest idea.


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