Example sentences for: slightest

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

  • Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention; Hillary hates Press Secretary Mike McCurry; McCurry pits reporters against one another).

  • The people trapped in the CAPM are assumed to apply the equations provided by Sharpe, Lintner, and Treynor (for which only Sharpe won a Nobel) to pounce on the slightest deviation from equilibrium in order to get more . This greed is their most important trait.

  • Gates' guard dogs snarled as we approached, and so did the crack team of Justice Department arsonists who were standing by, ready to set the whole restaurant on fire at the slightest hint of danger.

  • Most of those who learned English as a native language have not even the slightest idea of the problems facing people who learn it as a foreign language.

  • .. I'm not saying these people are hypocrites; or even in the slightest bit immoral.


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