How to Use ever so in a Sentence

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• Dwight edged out Ilona ever so slightly and won the round and the bonus points.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• That came ever so close at the beginning of the 2022 season.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• The city’s soundtrack changes ever so slightly this time of year.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
• The FinTechs that can survive will be the ones that find that ever so fine balance.
  — Zennon Kapron, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• But his credit card debt pumped the brakes ever so slightly on his goal.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
• For the first time during our ride, the light in her eyes dims and her shoulders drop ever so slightly.
  — Funmi Fetto, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025
• Inside the container is a rich, dark brown mulch that’s moist to the touch and ever so slightly grainy.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2024
• The window to catch that bottom or anything near it was open ever so briefly before the stock was off to the races again.
  — Zev Fima,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
• Next, adhere ever so slightly to the trends and style the duo atop a denim maxiskirt from Grlfrnd.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• The biscuits were soft, buttery, and moist, and the bottoms crisped up ever so slightly.
  — Molly Bolton, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024
• The 32-year-old slugger’s voice broke ever so slightly.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• That same night, Swift changed up her hair ever so slightly as well, which fans, of course, noticed.
  — Hedy Phillips, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• What bugs me is that the camera module shifts ever so slightly.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2025
• Quinoa also came out great—if not ever so slightly scorched on the bottom.
  — Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 14 Jan. 2025
• Then the head turned ever so slightly, and this tiny helpless creature seemed to be looking up at me.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
• The weather is mild, but ever so slightly crisp, and that my friends is a recipe for looking good every day.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2023
• Instead, Alcaraz loosened the 36-year-old’s grip on the game ever so slightly.
  — Ava Wallace, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
• Waffles leans against the staircase wall and peers into the fray ever so slightly, a soft, pensive smile on her face.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• The pendulum may again be starting to swing — if ever so slightly — the other way.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
• Motorists would whiz past, and sometimes the bridge, by design, would ever so slightly sway.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• Though the nutrition varies ever so slightly between brand to brand, the numbers are largely the same.
  — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• By the second week of treatment, her hair was thinning ever so slightly.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• Experts say that shifting the flight path of this small fleet of planes ever so slightly could make a big difference.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The dough is forced to rise quickly so the top of the snowy white bun breaks open ever so slightly to reveal the delicious filling within.
  — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2023
• With a pink-beige lip liner, my lips appear ever so slightly fuller.
  — Sophia Panych, Allure, 26 Dec. 2024
• To make the ball move, the pitcher rotated his fingers, ever so slightly.
  — Andy McCullough, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
• Even Netflix, which hasn’t raised prices at all this year, made a move designed to ever so gently push new subscribers to its ad tier.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
• Not quite neon, the lime shade is more eye-catching than emerald and khaki, and is ever so slightly off… even a bit ugly.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 27 June 2024
• And also cast availability, where this is the main project for all three of those actors, even if ones like Gomez dip out for a movie ever so often.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• The lid was lifted ever so slightly on Marvel's next Avengers film when early concept art leaked online.
  — Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025