The phrase "a lean face" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's facial appearance, typically indicating that the person has a thin or angular face.
Example: "The actor was known for his striking features, particularly his lean face that gave him a rugged look."
Alternatives: "a gaunt face" or "a slender face."
He was a youthful forty-seven: trim, fit, with short bristly hair and a lean face.
Mr. Jaffe is a lanky man with a lean face and a drawn expression.
Hansen, who is sixty-three, is a spare man with a lean face and a fringe of brown hair.
Recently, walking in the apartment she shared with her husband, Raphael Nuñez, and daughter, Ms. Nuñez, who has a lean face and long, straight black hair, ran her hand across the wall, feeling her way to her bedroom.
Dressed in an all-black uniform of polo shirt, slacks, and sport coat pinned with a button bearing a large "Q" — it stands for "question everything, especially authority," he said — he had a lean face, and his brown hair has thinned into a sparse pasture.
Dressed in an all-black uniform of polo shirt, slacks, and sport coat pinned with a button bearing a large "Q it stands for "question everything, especially authority," he said he had a lean face, and his brown hair has thinned into a sparse pasture.
A long, lean face with cool dark eyes and hair slicked back tight against his skull.
He had a sharp, lean face, with tufts of hair on his chin and above his lip, and a hard expression that could be mistaken for actionable annoyance; you got the feeling that he might suddenly pull a ball-peen hammer from beneath his blanket and bop someone on the head, but, of course, he was not likely to do any such thing.
You're no daughter of mine!'" He leans in, eyes a-twinkle, a handsome, long and lean face well etched by lines, and just like his father, one side of the mouth pulls up into a friendly vulpine leer to reveal white teeth, one eye almost closing.
He had the lean face of a hound, a long braided ponytail, and a kinetic energy that was almost feral.
A character named Edward Kirby, we read, "was a zealous jogger whose clear eyes, lean face, trim stature and universally respected work ethic belied an undeserved reputation in the hostile Chicago press for excessive consumption of wine and beer".
