How to Use slender in a Sentence

slender

adjective
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  • The bombs are slender and pointy and a little more than a foot wide.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The Pine Creek Trail slips down through the woods to join the slender waterway that carved the mighty bridge.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • The lamb tantuni were slender and deep at the same time.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The woman gazes up at the scar that runs in a slender pale curve from the edge of his left eyelid to the edge of his mouth.
    — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The male blossoms have a slender stem; the female flowers are the ones with the fruit behind them.
    — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Fiskars 8-Inch Shrub Rake is a slender little rake that’s great for moving in and out of tight places.
    — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The long slender red dogwood twigs add height and drama to the table.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The disease caused Whitney, a slender dancer at the time, to gain more than 200 pounds in one year at college.
    — Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Its leaves must be long and slender, like needles, instead of flat and wide.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The work consists of a slender disc of corten steel laid flat on the ground that bears the outlines of roses and a pair of praying hands.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Where the reefs poked up high enough, wind and waves would toss up sand and rubble, forming slender islets.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
  • Fabolous has a slender physique and the least fitness experience in the group.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Jan. 2023
  • O'Donnell, the paramedic who was slender enough to fit down the tunnel, failed on his first attempt to free McClure from the well's tiny shaft.
    — Mark Bone and Gregory Rosati, CNN, 30 July 2021
  • Crafted from buttery-soft leather, these tall boots have a more slender shape to put a high-fashion spin on the trend.
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The dinosaur also had less body armor, and its limbs were more slender than others of the same species.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The elusive plant, which rarely reveals its slender white petals, lives on trees in remote forests and swamps.
    — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Birds that fed on insects had slender beaks, just the ticket for plucking insects from the bark of trees.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • Despite their large size, the birds' bodies are slender, with long, narrow wings and long legs.
    — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 24 July 2022
  • With the future of her sport weighing on her slender shoulders?
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 24 May 2024
  • This plant has a slender trunk that often comes braided.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Stossier, a tall, slender man with a soothing demeanor, became an icon in the world of healing.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • When the next act came out, the first Beatle to take the stage was a slender young man with a passing resemblance to James Dean.
    — The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The $10 Amazon find creates long and slender hunks of ice that are the perfect size and shape for water bottles.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Rather than the deep bone-crushing jaws of an adult T. rex, the lower jaw of the reservoir specimen looked more slender.
    — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In them, Cunard is wearing bracelets stacked from wrist to elbow on both slender arms.
    — Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The California scrub-jay is a slender, medium-sized bird with a long tail, blue head and back, and a gray cape below the neck.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The short, slender woman clutches two leashes in her right hand.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The skull features long slender jaws with pointed teeth that curved backwards.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The long, slender design is adept at getting into the cockpit and recesses of the kayak to pump out water.
    — Susan Brickell, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2024
  • In a year in which margins are likely to be slender, even a small boost for one of the candidates could be significant — and a weak performance more costly than usual.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 June 2024

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