Example sentences for: slightly

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

  • On the eastern edge of town, north of the Umeno Hashi bridge across the Asano River, is the old geisha district, slightly more rundown than Nagamachi but no less quaint.

  • The town of Mashiko, to the north of Tokyo, is well worth a day’s train excursion if you are interested in seeing how some of Japan’s most celebrated pottery is made; the prices here are slightly better than back in Tokyo.

  • It's a translucent, pale yellow, with a head that dips slightly, beckoning you to lift it with a finger to get a better look.

  • Amino-acid sequence identity of 78-98% is an impressive figure, given that these two organisms are thought to have diverged 250 million years ago [ 16 ] . Although this value may be slightly higher than the true value, as uncertainties resulting from splicing boundaries led us to disregard the more variable amino-and carboxy-terminal extreme ends, the sequence identities for the Drosophila and Anopheles K +-channel orthologs over the core regions for K +-channel sequences are well above the mean values calculated by the other groups for orthologs between these species.

  • The fact that the tag abundance levels differ slightly more in the libraries made from the same ditag ligation than in those made from the same mRNA sample may reflect a small amount of denaturation of AT-rich ditags during storage of the ligation reaction, as has been previously reported [ 24 ] . Overall, microSAGE passes all the tests for representativity, reproducibility and accuracy used previously for conventional SAGE [ 2 ] .


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