slender
Example Sentences
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The futility and frustration of dieting has in recent years ignited a resistance movement of sorts, encouraging women, especially, to reject social pressures to maintain a slender form.
They resemble the Philadelphia building: historical charm, a slender shape, high ceilings, punched windows.
From Seattle Times
The slender volume also includes its author’s slyly self-deprecatory epitaph: “Here lies D.G. A poet? Who can say?/ He didn’t even have an MFA.”
From Washington Post
With such a slender majority it is possible overall control could swing back, but all residents want is for whoever emerges victorious to fight their corner in the city's Guildhall.
From BBC
It was always exciting to open the mailbox to discover one of those slender red envelopes along with junk and bills.
From Salon
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