Sentence examples for had grown lean from inspiring English sources

And some of us, impaled by dismay, had repeated at that moment the words of Dorothy Parker: "Lady, lady, better run!" But since then, taut and tutored, lacquer-bright, Diana had grown lean, refined, like a stripped-down slander machine, and what we expected was the high-gloss flirtatiousness of the media queen: with perhaps a well-managed tear or two.

The music too has grown leaner and more direct.

As drivers and putters have grown fatter, the golfers themselves have grown leaner.

Since Baker started working with Gold, her writing has grown leaner.

It had grown cloudy.

Braun had grown steely.

Locke had grown huge.

Time had grown urgent.

He had grown animated.

Chiara had grown bitter.

Thanks to selective breeding and efficient, hygienic processing, American meat has grown steadily leaner, cheaper and safer, says Joe Luter, Smithfield's chairman.