The slightest word of encouragement would have elicited wild cheering, I felt.

Every man on board will leap to his slightest word.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Without a knock, or the slightest word of warning, the girl Elorie came into his room.

These men would follow him anywhere, die at his slightest word, for he had handed them a victory such as the world had never known.

Many a time, when you were put off with a slight word, he has taken Me to his heart!

At her slightest word, Jecks rolled out of his blanket and stood by the cot.

There was no space in his vast, tragic disappointment for the slightest word of hope that Laura might speak.

The slightest word could send them spiralling down in flames.

As it turned out, awful was far too slight a word for it.