slender

Example Sentences

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The futility and frustration of dieting has in recent years ignited a resistance movement of sorts, encouraging women, especially, to reject social pressures to maintain a slender form.

From The Wall Street Journal

Spinner Simon Harmer took four wickets as South Africa bowled out India for 189 after the hosts managed a slender lead of 30 on day two of the first Test on Saturday.

From Barron's

While there were still slender, wolf-like dogs, there were also many with shorter snouts and wider, stockier heads.

From BBC

But he kept coming back to a classic: a slender, bookish typeface famously used in Apple’s “Think Different” campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once it closed in, it used slender jaws filled with sharp, recurved teeth to secure its target and prevent escape.

From Science Daily