slender
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Normally, bacteria move using flagella, slender, whip-like structures that spin to push the cells forward.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
“It’s not just work on the sport, not just to teach me the jumps,” said Carrillo, whose slender 5-foot-7 build and wide smile belie a fierce competitiveness that sometimes has been his worst enemy.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
At exercise time, a crowd gathered in the prison yard -- young and old, slender and paunchy, all with shaved heads.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
"I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid," she later recalled.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
It was slender and moved so easily that she thought it must be Anat.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing slender
15 Synonyms for "Thin": An Eileen Ford (1922-2014) Tribute List
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