- superlative of lean.
leanest
Example Sentences
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Skinless chicken and turkey breast meat — aka white meat — sold whole or as cutlets or fillets, are the leanest poultry choices.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
It's not a lie - I was never the leanest cricketer in the world, but I won games for franchises.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023
Schrader takes a page from the great journalism movies — most notably “All the President’s Men” and, more recently, “Spotlight” — by paring down the narrative to its leanest, most unfussy elements.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
Hotels across the country are bracing for what is expected to be one of China's leanest holiday travel periods since early 2020.
From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2022
The advice to omit needless words should not be confused with the puritanical edict that all writers must pare every sentence down to the shortest, leanest, most abstemious version possible.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
