How to Use lite in a Sentence

lite

adjective
  • Click here for a lite version of this page with a quicker load time.
    — Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The evening will include lite bites, drinks,dice, silent auction and prizes.
    — Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • Our more gamer-lite friends who used to not have much time to play games online are now suddenly all-in.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Gently break yolk and add 1 teaspoon lite or reduced- sodium soy sauce to each serving.
    — Lisa Lillien, Redbook, 15 Dec. 2017
  • First, walkable loafers to add a prep-lite touch to casual outfits.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The compact music-lite program was nicely suited to a school night, and a chilly, rainy one at that.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Just some lite life-altering therapy brought on by a children’s movie.
    — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Add to that up to 21 days of battery in lite mode or around 12 days of typical use.
    — Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Father Stu is more like the lite version of a conversion drama.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2022
  • So why would anyone want to invest in a cov-lite issue, other than perhaps out of ignorance?
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Highlights include lite bites, wine and beer discounts, along with holiday décor.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Case Keenum came in and was a lite version of him in a 17-14 win against Denver.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Skip the Wikipedia-lite bus tour and head instead to the farmer’s market, or trade in the crowded art museum for a walk along the canal.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 21 June 2017
  • Still, in the larger scope of Vancouver Island’s wilderness, this was nature lite.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Having more ports of retro games or lite versions of popular games would make gaming on the iPad Pro more universal.
    — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The crowd was peppered with women wearing fairy wings and LED lights, a sort of festie-lite mash-up with the bros in backward caps.
    — Erin Granat, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Once the restaurant is open, there will be other lite-fare food on the menu along with several varieties of beer on tap as well as non-alcoholic options.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 13 July 2018
  • And the Sabres are basically rocking the lite version of that, with Benson and Doan.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • Probably one of the hottest handheld games on the market right now, this lite version in turquoise is exactly what a casual gamer wants to find under the tree.
    — Tanya Edwards, CNN Underscored, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Cuban is a billionaire with few ties to progressive politics whose Trump-lite demeanor should come with its own trigger warning.
    — Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 4 June 2017
  • Finally, a video for one of the year’s most infectious pop songs, a casually-loping lite hip-hop ballad full of regret tempered with pity.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • With lite navigation, bike riders will be able to see details about their route without needing to keep their screen on or engage turn-by-turn navigation.
    — Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Cov-lite loans barely existed in Europe before the financial crisis.
    — Christopher Whittall, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The lite model is designed for handheld play, easy to toss into a carry-on, and is compatible with over 5,000 games.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2023
  • For a character like Dexter/Jim, who could, with one lite push of the imagination, easily be read as gay, this is pretty rich.
    — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2021
  • But these frustrations have less to do with the ideal of globalization itself than the lite version that politicians have implemented over recent decades.
    — Dambisa Moyo, Time, 22 May 2018
  • This kind of reminds me of a lite version of the ‘17-18 Houston Rockets (Chris Paul’s first year).
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Later, companies advertised filters, low tar cigarettes, and lite, mild, or ultra-lite products, all of which promised to reduce risk and none of which actually did.
    — Wired, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Seemingly, the Tigers would look for a Fulmer-lite return for Castellanos, who is 26 years old and under team control for two more seasons.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2018
  • That’s almost as impressive as the 7-in-1 ice cream modes—ice cream, lite ice cream, gelato, milkshake, sorbet, frozen smoothie bowl, and mix-ins—all that operate at the touch of a button.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025

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