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leaned
verb as in bend, angle toward
verb as in be disposed
verb as in count, depend on
Example Sentences
She leaned heavily on anti-communist messaging to reach out to older voters who fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon.
Taylor repeatedly leaned in with her head, causing a nasty cut above Serrano's right in the fourth round which opened up later in the fight as blood poured down the Puerto Rican's face.
This year, more independents leaned right than ever before.
Garcia, the son of a Mexican immigrant who moved to the U.S. in 1959, also leaned in to the GOP message of strengthening immigration enforcement along the Southern border.
“We talked about possibly doing a surreal yellow, almost postapocalyptic look, but it just had this artificiality that we didn’t like, so we leaned into real photography as a starting point.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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