Sentence examples for be leaner from inspiring English sources

"Our military will be leaner.

Their profits will be leaner.

We most likely will have to be leaner and meaner.

The new benefit will be "leaner" and "firmer".

The beef for the steaks will be leaner; the stews lighter, the vegetables just barely cooked.

Corporate management will be leaner, with most decisions made by the businesses themselves.

Its red wines, both cabernet and merlot, can be leaner, more elegant, more Bordeauxlike than California's.

They are not lavished with new oak, and textures tend to be leaner rather than plush.

But research has not established that nursing actually causes children to be leaner.

"The cabinet will have to be leaner and should not contain hardliners," he said.

One reason that stores are presenting a clearer message may be leaner inventories.