slender
Example Sentences
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With long, slender legs and a lightweight frame, it likely moved quickly through vegetation, hunting small reptiles, amphibians, and early mammals.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026
“I’m sorry about my ugly appearance,” a preteen Kaley said in a YouTube video played in court Thursday morning, urgently repeating, “I look so fat,” while panning the camera over her slender torso.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
An attritional 18-play drive lasting nearly 10 minutes led to a field goal and slender lead for New England.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
"I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid," she later recalled.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
Mom peeks through a slender gap in our curtains—to be sure it’s her, I guess.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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