The phrase "lean figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe someone who has a slender, slim physique. For example, you could say, "Her lean figure was immediately apparent in the fitting black dress she wore to the party."
It accounts for the lean figure and is the price he pays for the squeaks.
Father's lean figure helped him live long, well into his thirties.
He peered out to see the tall, lean figure of Alexis, who was moving furniture around.
"I also always thought clothes looked better on a lean figure," he said.
The dark lean figure, in the middle of the road, walking apart and away, is likely Munch himself.
At just past 4 30 p.m., a tall, lean figure with a full head of wavy black hair came striding through the door.
But these lean figures forming perfect rings in the water were, in fact, print designs — like the patterns of waves breaking over brief dresses.
That subtle effect meant that the line of glamorous young women, all Mr. Valli's fans, were not obliged to bury their lean figures in thick weaves, but could find lighter materials for crucial areas like the hips.
The scene -- lean figures, many in masks and dark tracksuits lugging shoulder-mounted rocket launchers or wielding AK-47 assault rifles -- reinforced what the U.S. military has acknowledged is the strong insurgent presence in the Euphrates River cities and towns of Anbar province, an overwhelmingly Sunni area near the Syrian border.
For example obese respondents may be more likely to assign 'good' traits to obese figures and lean respondents to lean figures.
The Calgary Suns Lindsey Ward described it as a "less-than-fab performance", although complimenting on Carey's leaner figure, "Oh, who am I kidding?
