| 1. | Elizabeth answered only by a slight bow. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 2. | 'A slight sprain,' explained the doctor. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | At one slight bound high overleap'd all boun. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | "Yet you speak with a slight American accent. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | Oliver's ailings were neither slight nor few. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 7. | I felt there was some slight error, Miss Cardew. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 8. | At this moment the horse made a slight movement. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | If they transgress, and slight that sole command. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 10. | I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upo. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | A nothing vexed him and suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 12. | He slights thy friendship, thy proposals scorns. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 13. | Mocks our attempts, and slights our just demand. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 14. | "This, shipmates, this is that other lesson and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 15. | He is requited for the slights suffered in earlier days. - from Beowulf by |
| 16. | Indeed, it was remarkable how well he bore these slights and with what unwearying politeness he kept on trying to ingratiate himself with all. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 17. | Some complain of the slights which are put upon them by relations, and they will tell you sadly of how many evils their old age is the cause. - from The Republic by Plato |