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"Lean" in a Sentence (38 examples)
Don't lean against the wall.
John is as lean as a wolf.
If you want to avoid cholesterol, eat lean meat with no fat.
Don't lean against this wall.
All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.
Don't lean too much on others.
You lean on your parents too much. You must be more independent.
Don't lean on my chair.
Don't lean on my desk.
I lean toward accepting the proposal.
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a leaning column
She leaned out of the window.
I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.
The Hispanic vote leans Democratic.
But you ſay they do not accept of them, but delight rather to lean to their old Cuſtoms and Brehon Laws, though they be more unjuſt and alſo more inconvenient for the common People, as by your late Relation of them I have gathered.
He lean'd not on his fathers but himself.
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
Oppreſs'd with Anguiſh, panting, and o'reſpent, / His fainting Limbs against an Oak he leant.
The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.
They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger.
lean steak cuts
The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
a lean budget
a lean harvest
A lean ore hardly worth mining.
Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.
lean copy, matter, or type
lean management
lean manufacturing
Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.
Kitting for in-plant handling is unlean. Kitting for transport, on the other hand, is lean; for example, shipping complete sets of parts to make a TV or motorcycle or motor home is lean.
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, / His wife would eat no lean.
The intermediates and leans are the predominant morphotypes found at the SE-NHR seamounts […]
Obese Zuckers, compared to leans, consumed more food under free-feeding conditions.
He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose.
Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude.
Eyes real tight 'cause I'm chokin' the creep; vision messed up 'cause I'm drinkin' the lean.
"What's in the cup, let me see that / Girl, where the rest of that promethazine at?" / She said, "Cool, gotta run out to my Cadillac though / And I'll be like Fat Joe, and bring the lean back"
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