SLENDER in a Sentence

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109 example sentences for SLENDER, such as:

1. The girl was pretty and slender.
2. She's got a beautiful slender figure.
3. Everybody of us admired her slender figure.
4. Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
5. The birch has smooth bark and slender branches.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLENDER
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slender
 a.  having little width in proportion to height or length; long and thin
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  She was glad she had inherited Ellen's slender white hands and tiny feet, and she wished she had Ellen's height, too, but her own height pleased her very well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  She wrapped the bright lengths about his slender waist, above his belt, and tied the ends in a lover's knot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  It was still theirs, that slender iron line winding through the sunny valley toward Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Melanie lay in bed in her nightgown, her eyes closed and circled with black, her heart-shaped face bloated, her slender body hideous and distorted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  The sight of it brought back too many hurting memories of the slender hand which had worn it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  Mrs. Tarleton's face changed and the brittle smile left her lips as she put her arm around Carreen's slender waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  Every line of his slender body spoke of generations of brave and gallant men and Scarlett knew his war record by heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  "If we'd had our mothers-in-law in the ranks, we'd have beat the Yankees in a week," agreed Tommy, his eyes straying to the slender, indomitable form of his new mother-in-law.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  He didn't seem to realize what a slender fingerhold they had on security and how important it was to make more money in these troublous times when money was the only protection against fresh calamities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  Despite hard work, they were still slender and sensitive looking and remarkably well tended for a farmer's hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  There was a determined squareness about his slender shoulders that alarmed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  He was a slender, weedy boy, small for his eight years, quiet almost to shyness, never speaking unless spoken to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
13  As she passed Mr. Gryce, the train gave a lurch, and he was aware of a slender hand gripping the back of his chair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
14  When the tea came he watched her in silent fascination while her hands flitted above the tray, looking miraculously fine and slender in contrast to the coarse china and lumpy bread.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
15  Near the bed stood a table holding her breakfast tray, with its harmonious porcelain and silver, a handful of violets in a slender glass, and the morning paper folded beneath her letters.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
2  Girls always eat like a bird in order to keep a slender figure.
3  The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.
4  Everybody of us admired her slender figure.
5  She's got a beautiful slender figure.
6  Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
7  They won the election but only with a very slender majority.
8  The girl was pretty and slender.
9  She was slender as a willow - and equally graceful, equally erect.
10  The birch has smooth bark and slender branches.
11  He was young -- perhaps from twenty- eight to thirty -- tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
12  Profits in the mass market are slender at best, the result of too much duplicated investment under the bonnet on technologies that are indistinguishable to car buyers.