Example sentences for: slights

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

  • As they had suffered slights of either incomprehension or contempt for their religious customs before, they simply could not believe it was not deliberate, and mutiny broke out at Meerut, 40 km (25 miles) north of Delhi.

  • It's unclear whether it could have been predicted by a good rump-reading from Mom, but Sly Stallone leads the pack of celebrities having meltdowns over seemingly innocuous slights this month.

  • Carlson uses this vignette to make the point that Bush has a long memory for slights, in this case the lethal injectee's accusation that he was caving to election-year pressure by signing her death warrant.

  • Some say it slights the teaching abilities and intellectual talents of professors who don't happen to be world famous but who do a perfectly good job instructing their pupils at places such as Bristol or Newcastle.

  • By wounded fans correcting popular slights, redeeming ignored heroes?


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