Sentence for lean | Use lean in a sentence

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• 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)

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