Sentence examples for in the lean from inspiring English sources

Even in the lean years when I first got here, we did better than this".

Bran is meant for livestock and only eaten in the lean season if people are starving.

The movie strips that out and places faith in the lean, mean, purring fundamentals.

I ask Wesker if, in the lean times, he ever doubted his talent.

But in the lean, mean 90's, the old rules no longer applied.

There is a clear victor in the "lean versus clean" debate.

In the lean first years, he worked 80-hour weeks, getting by on beans and rice.

They are likely to re-emerge, however, as pay is restrained in the lean years ahead.

In the lean years that followed, American and European shipyards dropped out of the business.

"I think everything we do in the Lean In circle is positive," Ms. Huang said.

He remembers eating rice shipped from Burma in the lean years after World War II.