Sentence examples for a lean man from inspiring English sources

Mattis is a lean man of medium height.

Peter, a lean man with fair hair, sat stiffly near the front: he looked like somebody anticipating a root canal.

I got out of the car and he came over — a lean man, with a distinctive loping gait.

Mr. Abassy, a lean man of 41, is a leader of Kifl's predominant tribe, the Bani Hassan.

Mr. Rawlings, a lean man with a trim gray beard, says the balancing act is worth it.

He is a lean man, with an eaglet face and a sleepy-sounding voice, almost inaudible at a yard's range.

"We're on a lean manning mission," Lt Cdr Geir Christian Lie explained.

George Welborn, a tall, lean man with a full head of graying hair, a mustache, and dark, thoughtful eyes, was the warden of Tamms when I visited.

Her father — a long, lean man — had a shovel nearly as tall as himself.

Wallace, a tall, lean man with a salt-and-pepper goatee, wears two handguns atop his pockets, a star-shaped badge at his waist and a baseball cap.

"I don't always know what I'm doing," said Mr. Bay, a tall, lean man who speaks in a smooth growl, "but you've got to jump off the cliff with me and just hope".