Sentence examples for can be lean from inspiring English sources
They can be lean and attenuated like David Warner and Jonathan Pryce.
Puréed vegetable soups can be lean and spare or rich and creamy, spicy or subtle, hot or cold.
In other cases it can be "lean forward" — like shopping for a gift while you take your lunch break at the park.
Yak meat can be lean and tough; wise Tibetan cooks made their sha momos juicier by adding a bit of oil and water to the filling.
As a result, startups can be lean: they no longer need to operate their own servers; they can outsource much of what they do, from software development to user testing; and they can iterate constantly to improve their product.
"They can be lean and flexible.
Domestic banks can be leant upon to absorb government bond auctions.
Three-quarters of the government's debt is with local investors, who can be leaned on to keep funding it.
Its red wines, both cabernet and merlot, can be leaner, more elegant, more Bordeauxlike than California's.
"A lot of states are looking at the special court to see if this kind of court can work and if it can be leaner" than the other tribunals, Mr. Zacklin said.
Those in the gun industry say a range of firearms have been purchased, from high-priced handguns small enough to fit inside a purse to shotguns and assault rifles that can be leaned against a wall inside a clothes closet.
