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297 examples of Lightly in a sentence

And it's a responsibility that I don't take lightly.
I'm very confident we're going to learn to live more lightly on the planet, and I am extremely confident that what we're going to do with our new digital tools is going to be so profound and so beneficial that it's going to make a mockery out of everything that came before.
And when you touch it, you have to really push very hard to move that anvil across the screen, and yet you touch the ping-pong ball very lightly and it just scoots across the screen.
Biologists, on the other hand, have got off lightly, in my view.
So lightly steamed, sautéed, or raw vegetables are typically more beneficial than fried dishes.
You want to sleep lightly, wake up easily.
And of course, in the current environment, one need allude only lightly to the work of non-state actors trying to influence global affairs, and taking advantage of these.
But I shared with Lauran it was a decision I really wrestled with, and not one that I made lightly.
And it's a city that sits on the ground very lightly.
Lessons about how to touch the ground lightly, about reversibility, about disassembly.
Touch it lightly, leave a minimal mark.
Another scenario we can't take lightly is the potential of conflict over water and the political destabilization in a region that has three nuclear powers: China, India, Pakistan.
Taking my arm, leaning lightly against me.
Lightly, lightly against me.
That, and I will say this to the scientists, that the trickster has the ability to hold his ideas lightly so that he can let room in for new ideas or to see the contradictions or the hidden problems with his ideas.
In fact, I don't come to this conclusion lightly.
Interestingly, Charles Darwin was born a very lightly pigmented man, in a moderately-to-darkly pigmented world.
He knew that darkly pigmented peoples were found close to the equator; lightly pigmented peoples, like himself, were found closer to the poles.
There was natural selection for the evolution of lightly pigmented skin.
Lightly pigmented skin evolved not just once, not just twice, but probably three times.
Some of us with lightly pigmented skin live in high-UV areas.
We have to, if we're lightly pigmented, be careful about the problems of skin cancer, and destruction of folate in our bodies, by lots of sun.
We live in a world where we have lightly and darkly pigmented people living next to one another, but often brought into proximity initially as a result of very invidious social interactions.
I love that I do not take things lightly.
But to say that it was one of the worst movies I've ever viewed would be putting it lightly.
Most of the blame must lie at the director's feet for not even understanding the basics of film making, but Seagal does not get off lightly, as one of the producers of this film, he must also share the blame.
This "movie" and I say this lightly, is nothing but pure trash.
You cannot take issues like this so lightly!
I find neither of these kind of reviews helpful, and so I do not give this film the awful review I am about to, lightly.
TCP suffered because it treated fascism lightly in a "comedy" and because its release was particularly ill-timed given the events in Germany in that year.
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