slender

Example Sentences

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Normally, bacteria move using flagella, slender, whip-like structures that spin to push the cells forward.

From Science Daily

“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

The Brooklyn Eagle wrote that contact with spirits, “rests on extremely slender foundations,” but was also, “worthy of serious investigation.”

From Literature

San Antonio took a slender lead into half-time.

From Barron's

Dirt fell from the ceiling as she tugged the slender glass tube free from the gnarly hand jutting out from the ceiling.

From Literature