Lean in a sample sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use lean in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for lean.
- And lean on each other. (8)
- Not too fat, not too lean. (12)
- It is a composing but a lean dietary. (10)
- Miss Carrington was lean and blue-eyed. (10)
- Having finished, she would lean out into the night. (8)
- His lean, unshaven face was full of wolfish misery. (8)
- He passed without seeing us, licking his lean chops. (8)
- His home was in Jutland; he was lean and very fair. (12)
- The old man wagged his head on its lean stalk of neck. (8)
- They lean as in a great flight forward upon Lombardy. (10)
- Slowly Boleskey brought his lean horse up to the carriage. (8)
- I cause it to be declared that you need, on no account, lean on me. (10)
- Lean me more up the mound; now I feel it: All the old heath-smells! (10)
- Soames paused a moment in his march to lean over the railings of the Row. (8)
- I had to lean over, pick it up in my teeth and worry it like I was a dog. (21)
- The waiter, lean in the chaps, pervaded with such free-masonical deference. (8)
- She had ceased to lean against him, and he missed the cosy friendliness of it. (8)
- It can seem to lean back on the Past; it can seem to be amorous of the Future. (10)
- A cold, lean dietary it is; but he dispensed it, and it fed her, or kept her alive. (10)
- He distinguished it in the vast lean length he had once whipped and flung to earth. (10)
- She sat up, well-balanced; and, as he approached, began to lean gently forward to him. (10)
- He saw Megan stop and lean against the sea-wall, looking at the sea; and he too stopped. (8)
- Then Carinthia made reverence to the grey lean figure of her uncle and kissed Mrs. Carthew. (10)
- Beauty is a good dowry to bring a poor, lean, worldly curate of your Church, and he knows that. (10)
- The housemaid turned suddenly into a lean creature; and he awoke with a sore feeling in his heart. (8)
- His silver head and lean arms alone were visible, parting the water feebly; suddenly he disappeared. (8)
- Nor had she, nor could she do more than lean on and catch example from his prompt spiritual valiancy. (10)
- His lean slip of face was an illumination of vivacious grey from the quickest of prominent large eyes. (10)
- In person, he is exceptionally lean; and his face is not, like those of happier mortals, a certificate. (2)
- The fingers of one hand clenched under his chin, he stood there lean and rocking strangely to and fro. (12)
- Fulkerson came and stood with his little feet wide apart, and bent his little lean, square face on March. (9)
- He was lying in a sort of stupor, and with difficulty she got him to sit up and lean against the bed-rail. (8)
- He deserved that the Gods should recline on those gold-edged cushions above, and lean over to observe him. (10)
- I take my lean years and my fat years, still a hireling, but having somewhat to say about my market value. (16)
- I call you my husband, and tremble to be permitted to lean my head on your bosom for hours, my sweet lover! (10)
- His cap is tucked into his belt, his hair is bright in the sunshine; he is lean, wasted, brown, and laughing.] (8)
- Very slowly, more bent than when he came, lean, hungry, and disheartened, he made his way back to the station. (8)
- Poor Caroline obeyed; but she was capable of reflecting only that her face was unnaturally lean and strange to her. (10)
- A movement of his head, which grew on a lean, plucked neck like that of an old fowl, had brought his face into the light. (8)
- While they stand at the window looking at the moon, there enters a lean, well-built, taciturn young man dressed in Loden. (8)
- At Lekkatts beneath Croridge a lean midday meal was being finished hard on the commencement by a silent company of three. (10)
- I was not fashioned to be the lean meek martyr of a cause, not I. I carry too decisive a weight in the balance to victory. (10)
- Two lean fellows, rather alike, with lined faces and bitten, drooped moustaches, were the next to come through the yard gate. (8)
- He was a lean, nervous flibbertigibbet of a man, with something the look of an actor, and something the look of a horse-jockey. (2)
- Patrick stared, and the working of his troubled brows gave the unhappy gentleman such lean comfort as he was capable of taking. (10)
- His lean little body was swathed in several short jackets, and he brought the letters buttoned into one of the innermost pockets. (9)
- Away went his patient, returning at the end of the fortnight, lean, and with the appetite of a Toledo blade for succulent slices. (10)
- So lean was that brown face that the beams from the lanthorn would not rest on it, but slipped past on either side into the night. (8)
- The back of his head bulged out above the lines of his lean neck and high, sharp shoulders; his grey hair was cropped quite close. (8)
- He was with her friends, who liked her the more they knew her, and he was compelled to lean to their view of the perplexing woman. (10)
- But presently I saw him draw his arm away ever so carefully, lay her head down on the grass, and lean forward to stare at something. (8)
- She became conscious that he was standing just behind her; his figure in its thin covering looked very lean, his face strangely worn. (8)
- He knew the long hours of waiting and the lean minutes of a half-public meeting; the tortures of suspense that haunt the unhallowed lover. (8)
- The dreaded doctor was an immoderately tall man, lean and wiry, carelessly clad in a long loose coat of no colour, loose trowsers, and huge shoes. (10)
- The Squire put his back against the sideboard; his stiff figure, with lean neck and angry eyes, whose pupils were mere pin-points, had a certain dignity. (8)
- He was evidently waiting with anxiety for her answer, and the little silver hairs that straggled on his lean throat beneath his beard were clearly visible. (8)
- His domed forehead, great white moustache, lean cheeks, and long lean jaw were covered from the westering sunshine by an old brown Panama hat. (8)
Also see sentences for: cant, decline, depend, diminish, emaciated, gaunt, incline.
Glad you visited this page with a sentence for lean. Now that you’ve seen how to use lean in a sentence hope you might explore the rest of this educational reference site Sentencefor.com to see many other example sentences which provide word usage information.
The boy leaned his head on his mother’s shoulder.