slender

Scattered across the living room floor, under a sparkling crystal chandelier, were dozens of photos of the same slender man in different settings - sitting at his desk, even playing in the snow.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Compared with related beetles, members of this genus have exceptionally long and slender mandibles, antennae, and maxillary palps.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Sprouting eyes, wings, beaks, the slender monolith seemingly rotates and billows as it rises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

It seemed counterintuitive to slacken my grip given such a precise goal — to land a slender arrow in the epicenter of a black dot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Fox wiped her slender fingers on her apron and let down her curly red hair.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

"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

In the midst of them, thin-stalked, a taller, slenderer fungus, the Charing-T Tower lifted towards the sky a disk of shining concrete.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Luke Northmore's drive over the line from the resulting scrum gave Harlequins the slenderest of leads at half-time and they were unable to take further advantage of the extra man after the restart.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024

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

But what “Sollers Point” accomplishes is a singular balancing act, compensating for the mood of heavy discouragement with only the slenderest thread of hope.

From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018

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

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo