slim
Example Sentences
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The odds of nobody ever getting sick again seem pretty slim.
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The drink lineup was solid, much better than the slim pickings at my $89 beach day in the Dominican Republic a few days earlier.
She was dressed in slim beige pants and wore a blazer over her white blouse.
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To evoke the fractured psyche of the characters, Morrison’s narratives are highly disjointed, switching among different points of view and time periods with only the slimmest semantic clues offered for orientation.
Red Lobster’s chief executive said the chain still needs to slim down to help move past its stint in bankruptcy two years ago.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.