slender

Example Sentences

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My sister Betsie, though seven years older than I, still had that slender grace that made people turn and look after her in the street.

From Literature

Already it had something of the beauty of a full-grown wolf: the slender pale.grey muzzle; large silver ears with their edging of black; elegant, dark-rimmed eyes.

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My hands curled around the slender wood of the chair’s backrest.

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When I turn toward the sound, Rose—a slender, mousy girl who has heretofore been mostly silent—is still poised with her hand in the air, fingers now emptied of cutlery.

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Normally, bacteria move using flagella, slender, whip-like structures that spin to push the cells forward.

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