Very light
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Very light
C19: named after Edward W. Very (1852–1910), US naval ordnance officer
Example Sentences
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"They let each other down, too, in the room. There were some guys who were very light on the puck. Very light."
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2018
Prufrock was soon followed by other poems, each one lighting up the postwar literary battlefields like a Very light high above the trenches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very light rain commenced about dark or a little after, but I doubt whether it will come to anything; however it will damp the grass for the poor animals and make it more palatable.
From McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay
The aeroplane flies at any convenient height and when it is exactly above the target it fires a Very light.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
"Very light it was; but I couldn't see rightly which colour it was."
From A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta by Guy Boothby
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