leaning

Example Sentences

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Leaning in to the taste for size is a way to claw back margins that have been crushed in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Leaning across the center console, he flung open the passenger door.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Leaning into this difference, June Mountain offers free lift tickets to children 12 and under.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

Leaning heavily on Jeffersonian rhetoric, the Browns called on the “oppressed” populace to rise and assert “their natural rights” as “citizens of a free republic.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Leaning on the two men, Mrs. Rogers tottered out of the room.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie