slender

Harry Kane notched his 92nd goal for England from the penalty to spot to seal a slender Nations League win over Croatia.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

They broke down the front door of a stone house and arrested a slender 34-year-old environmental activist named Hodei Ciarra Docampo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Ippolito’s natural build is more slender than Stallone’s for Rocky, so he started training hard with weights, eating a ton of protein-rich meals and boxing for roughly 18 months before production began.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Peruvian hairless dogs are a distinctive Indigenous breed known for their slender bodies, pointed ears, and lack of fur.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

A slender red tongue flickered over the tiny fangs, reminding Jeremy of the lightning that had split the sky earlier that night.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

"It is more likely than not that megalodon must have had a much slenderer body than the modern great white shark."

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025

And it consisted of a series of stacked volumes that grew slenderer and more circular as the tower rose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

“In the Realm of Perfection” is slenderer, knottier, more self-consciously besotted than that.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2018

Its signs also use a sans-serif font, although one that's slenderer and more delicate than Helvetica.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2017

I add thirteen tiny freckles to a new, slenderer nose.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The Aberdeen-based swimmer had just triumphed in her first Paralympics, taking gold by the slenderest of margins ahead of team-mate Callie-Ann Warrington.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024

A celebrated beauty, she wears tight corsets and glorious frocks, adhering to a regimen of regular exercise and a diet that often consists of little more than beef broth and the slenderest of orange slices.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

In her review of the 1978 production, Times theater critic Sylvie Drake identifies “Fam and Yam” as the weak link in “Albee Directs Albee,” calling the playlet “the slenderest of self-jibes” and a “threadbare spoof.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

If you didn’t recall that phrase from the 288-line Tennyson poem A Dream of Fair Women, you had only the slenderest hope of responding correctly with Cleopatra and Caesar.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2020

The gloves were unlined, with the slenderest slashes hidden in the fingertips.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo