Sentence examples for face leaner from inspiring English sources

Now, with shipping companies trying to save money by minimizing port calls, operators also face leaner times.

But bond traders could soon face leaner years, according to an analysis by Mr. Hintz that compares interest rates with Wall Street revenue back to 1980.

There are already signs of a more sober market ahead: Wall Street workers may face leaner bonuses this year and in years to come, borrowers may have a harder time getting mortgages and foreign buyers may reconsider the potential returns of investing in New York.

His face leaned nearer and nearer mine; I remember pushing the peas haplessly around my plate.

As I stepped away, a man with a mean face leaned over and said, "Give me that".

A lifesize figure in a dark sweatshirt, the hood drawn low over his face, leans over another figure in an orange jumpsuit, his face covered by a towel and his body strapped down on a tilted surface.

After two years of drought and bad harvests, most farmers in Bahr el Ghazal had few seed stores left to plant when 1998 began, and while the people in this flat savannah usually face lean months in June and July, constant cattle raids and guerrilla fighting in recent years have undermined their traditional ways of getting through hungry times.

The figure of Judith, absurdly massive with an oddly delicate head, dressed in silk and pearls, smiles cheerfully while grasping Holofernes's decapitated head in an improbably huge hand, as her alarming-looking maid, with a mannish face, leans menacingly toward us.

Facebook, stepping on our toes while slapping us in the face, leans in for a kiss.

Oh, were you asking him?" She pressed her right leg over his face, leaned back and applied the armbar, to riotous laughter.

Finally, Mushaq-Bi, the one with a chestnut-colored chiffon dupatta draped over her head and smiling eyes that defy her lined face, leans forward.