LEAN in a Sentence

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For LEAN, below is one of 255 sentences:
Such a glowing morning usually called Scarlett to the window, to lean arms on the broad sill and drink in the scents and sounds of Tara.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lean
 v.  bend or slant away from the vertical; rely for assistance or support
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Such a glowing morning usually called Scarlett to the window, to lean arms on the broad sill and drink in the scents and sounds of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  She saw the doctor lean down from the platform and whisper something to Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  And then the picture faded, blotted out by an impulse, hard, unscrupulous and greedy, which had been born in the lean days at Tara and was now strengthened by the present uncertainty of life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  India was on her feet, her lean body quivering with insult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Scarlett and Pitty, startled and bewildered, looked at each other in wonderment and, like a lean old cat, India streaked across the room to Melanie's side.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  She was roused by a chuckle which Mr. Dorset seemed to eject from the depths of his lean throat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  Even the immediate one of letting Trenor, as they drove homeward, lean a little nearer and rest his hand reassuringly on hers, cost her only a momentary shiver of reluctance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
9  He stood still, dragging at his moustache with a lean weak hand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
10  The very slowness and hesitancy of the effect increased its fascination: it was delicious to lean over and look down into the dim abysses of unconsciousness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
11  It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  She was the more absurd to herself in that, after the rite of dining alone, she could go out to the kitchen, lean against the sink, and talk to them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  It became difficult for her to move about, and she raged that she, who had been slim and light-footed, should have to lean on a stick, and be heartily commented upon by street gossips.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed to be mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
15  And here was Flask now standing, Daggoo with one lifted arm furnishing him with a breastband to lean against and steady himself by.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  We leaned the poles back against the wall.
17  She leaned precariously out of the window.
18  She went to the window and leaned out.
19  He leaned forward , his elbows resting on the table.
20  Maggie leaned forward and kissed her cheek.
21  He leaned forward with a sly smile.
22  She leaned forward and whispered something in my ear.
23  He leaned forward and patted me on the shoulder.
24  Evan leaned forward and began nuzzling her shoulder.
25  The pupil leaned to the ground to pick up a wallet.
26  She leaned over and whispered something in his ear.
27  I spilled my coffee all over the table and Mom leaned across me to wipe it up.
28  He never knew that Sid lay nightly watching, and frequently slipped the bandage free and then leaned on his elbow listening a good while at a time.
29  There were a couple of fellas leaning up by the bar.
30  A man was leaning out of the window.