How to use "slightly" in a sentence

Leblanc trembled slightly, but still shook his head

Joel was an odd little man: five-feet-four, slightly chubby but not fat, with curly brown hair that appeared to have frizzed and kinked in response to a jolt of electricity

Jaborski, the scoutmaster, had taken other groups of scouts on winter survival hikes every year for sixteen years, and no one had been even slightly injured

Beneath his cordial, witty, slightly cool exterior, his secret response was that of a healthy male animal, and her awareness of it was more instinctual than intellectual, like a mare's response to the stallion's first faint stirrings of desire.

A loose windowpane in the living room rattled slightly whenever a strong gust of wind struck it

Exhausted, slightly tipsy, she went directly to bed and fell into a sound sleep.

His praise was so effusive that, even reading it by herself, in her own kitchen, she was slightly embarrassed by the effusiveness of the praise.

A five-piece band hammered out wildly amplified pop music from the small stage in the open cocktail lounge beyond and slightly above the slot machines

She felt more relaxed than she'd been ten minutes ago, but she wasn't even slightly tipsy

"Ah," Kennebeck said, frowning slightly.

Besides, though they both struck him as slightly wacky, they didn't seem to be merely hoaxers or borderline psychopaths who got their kicks by scaring defenseless women

At this indication of imminent surrender, the tall man relaxed slightly, although his lumpish face was still flushed with anger

Feeling slightly foolish, like an easily spooked old woman, Tina said, "I'm sorry

The garage was slightly musty, but Tina wasn't able to detect the odor of gas.

He thought of her slightly crooked smile, her eyes as quick and deep and cool and blue as a pure mountain stream

Bruckster fell in beside and slightly behind his target as they pressed through the teeming mob that jammed the enormous casino

He reached into a pocket of his leisure suit and took out a tiny aerosol can that was only slightly larger than one of those spray-style breath fresheners, small enough to be concealed in Bruckster's hand.

When he smiled, his mouth turned up slightly at the left corner, giving him a vaguely haughty expression, although at the moment he wasn't smiling.

"Heartbeat's normal, maybe even slightly slower than before

The ghostly, slightly luminous winter landscape made George Alexander think of graveyards

Watching my brother's back, I pushed the switch and the steel hammer shook slightly, then rose quickly

'When Lawrence came here, I told you that I had only known him slightly before