slenderest
Example Sentences
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Luke Northmore's drive over the line from the resulting scrum gave Harlequins the slenderest of leads at half-time and they were unable to take further advantage of the extra man after the restart.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024
A celebrated beauty, she wears tight corsets and glorious frocks, adhering to a regimen of regular exercise and a diet that often consists of little more than beef broth and the slenderest of orange slices.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022
In her review of the 1978 production, Times theater critic Sylvie Drake identifies “Fam and Yam” as the weak link in “Albee Directs Albee,” calling the playlet “the slenderest of self-jibes” and a “threadbare spoof.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
If you didn’t recall that phrase from the 288-line Tennyson poem A Dream of Fair Women, you had only the slenderest hope of responding correctly with Cleopatra and Caesar.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2020
Gale always says I remind him of a squirrel the way I can scurry up even the slenderest limb.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
