Sentence examples for fairly lean from inspiring English sources

Accounts filed for it in the US suggest that it is a fairly lean operation.

His people like to say he lives fairly lean, relative, anyway, to the likes of Elton John and Sting.

Since Spectre is set to land next Monday, distributors are running scared, and the coming weekend offers fairly lean pickings.

At the current stage in this deeply aromatic, fairly lean chardonnay's life cycle, its tang and piquancy, expressed especially in an extra-long finish, stand out.

I'm thinking about the refried bean taco, a fairly lean bite despite the addition of onions, cheese, cilantro and pico de gallo.

But Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department, said that, even with the increase, inventory levels had remained fairly lean.

A fairly uninformative commercial that's pretty lean on details and specs.

He seemed about fifty, a lean, fairly tall fellow wearing triple-seam bluejeans and a matching heavy denim shirt with the sleeves cut to the armpits.

"None of us can read everything we suggest, so we lean fairly heavily on reviews and reviewers as basically our own advisers," said David Wright, a fiction librarian and readers' adviser for the Seattle Public Library.

Rahman leans fairly heavily on "The Great Gatsby" — the bland narrator, struggling to make sense of a lavishly talented enigma.

Ten composers were represented, but the range of musical accents was fairly slender: most leaned on the mildly dissonant, slightly jazzy shimmer that has been typical in American choral writing since the 1950's.