"lightly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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verbo + lightly
Kolokacji: 187
taken lightly • lightly brown • lightly touch • rest lightly • say lightly • run lightly • tap lightly • tread lightly • step lightly • speak lightly • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
(5) say, reply, answer
Kolokacji: 3
(8) speak, clad, chat
Kolokacji: 3
(13) defend, guard, smile, recruit
Kolokacji: 4
(16) toss, discard, traffic
Kolokacji: 3
(18) smoke, sigh
Kolokacji: 2
(22) trace, sketch
Kolokacji: 2
(23) shrug, applaud
Kolokacji: 2
(24) rain, snow, disguise
Kolokacji: 3
(25) punch, bite, prick
Kolokacji: 3
(26) freckle, fur
Kolokacji: 2
1. lightly freckle = lekko pokryj się piegami lightly freckle
2. lightly fur = lekko futro lightly fur
  • They are muzzled, lightly furred, and have patagia stretching between their arms and legs which they can use to glide over short distances in low gravity (their home worlds are all low-gravity).
  • They were large, bluntfingered, and very warm, the backs lightly furred with reddish hairs.
  • His big body was tanned flesh covering corded muscle; the smooth expanse of bronze was broken only by the jet-black hair lightly furring his long legs, covering his powerful chest, and arrowing down his flat stomach to the thicket over his loins.
  • Then a figure appeared: a rather large human woman, heavy boned and lightly furred.
  • He lighted his cigar, puffed furiously, sank back in his seat, as far as it would allow him to, and stared fixedly through the windscreen, already lightly furred with snow.
  • She pushed, and the soft linen of his shirt fell open, revealing a strong throat and broad chest, both darker than the white cloth and lightly furred with hair.
  • Jenny's hand rested gently for a moment on the rounded skull, lightly furred with a gold-brown fuzz.
(27) drum, rattle
Kolokacji: 2
lightly + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 12
lightly floured • lightly armed • lightly brown • lightly seasoned • lightly shaded • ...

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