Sentence examples for lean dark from inspiring English sources

[Atlantic Cities] A "large, lean dark gray cat" is bullying other cats, and humans, in Brooklyn.

Aides referred to that lean, dark period as "no-Frito month".

I would not have told her about my lover — I did not tell her about my personal life — but she was there when he first walked into our office, a lean, dark man with a purple tie and a moneyed manner.

A Syrian imam – of the Khadija al-Khobra mosque in Damascus – with a lean, dark face, told us of his meetings this year with four Syrian "militant groups" in the city which had different nationalist and religious aims, of how he tried to unite them, but discovered that they were thieves, killers and rapists rather than jihadis.

His jeans in "Extraordinary Measures" — cut lean, dark blue, with no fussy extras and with a modest rise that even men of ordinary fitness might wear without embarrassment — are so correct that retailers should be encouraged to display the movie posters in their denim bars for instructional use.

To be sure, Murrow, a lean, dark, handsome, and deceptively easy-mannered man of forty-five, who bears his own eminence without visible effort, is on cordial-to-intimate terms with most of the important people in the United States and Great Britain and gives no evidence of being indifferent to their esteem.

Omar grew into a tall, lean, dark-eyed young man with bushy black eyebrows and a thick beard.

Mr. Van Cayseele (pronounced Cazelle) appeared suddenly, a lean, dark-skinned zephyr with a mysteriously inward quality, his feet seeming barely to touch the bumpy terrain.

And there is a tremendous shock in seeing how the lean, dark-suited figure of the opening scene dissolves into grief the second he is left alone: instead of rattling off "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt", Tennant gives the impression that the words have to be wrung from his prostrate frame.

Fans of the text already preparing to flood Twitter and Points Of View (let's face it, the two forums share many attributes), wailing that their "speshalbookywook has been gone dirtied" need to prepare themselves for the fact that one whole plotline – Elizabeth and Robert in the 70s – has been cut entirely to leave just the leaner, darker love story of Stephen and Isabelle.

The casting is counterintuitive: comedy duets usually play up physical differences, but in this case both actors are tall, lean and dark haired.