slender
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Sprouting eyes, wings, beaks, the slender monolith seemingly rotates and billows as it rises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
But when Ser Duncan the Tall crosses paths with a slender, small boy calling himself Egg, so begins a friendship that will one day change the Seven Kingdoms.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
The horses are characterised by their "large size, long legs, well-developed musculature, slender and elegant head -- set on a long, straight neck -- expressive eyes, high withers and sturdy hooves," he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Plagued by insomnia, the 11-year-old British boy pulled a slender book off his mother’s shelf, one she had swiped from school where she taught.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
There was also, poignantly now, a slender, hardbound history of Centralia, prepared to mark the town’s centenary just before the outbreak of the fire.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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"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
The branch he had jumped from was slenderer than it looked from the ground and much higher.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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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
Yet after being the fourth-fastest qualifier for the worlds final in Eugene, Allen was disqualified for a false start by the slenderest of margins.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
Gale always says I remind him of a squirrel the way I can scurry up even the slenderest limb.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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