Sentence examples for lean term from inspiring English sources

"Breast" was a firm and lean term, but "bosom" sounded dangling and clammy.

And if the filmmakers continue their strategy of making The Purge films lean (in terms of budget) and mean (in terms of violence), who knows where this unlikely franchise could lead -- and what it might say?

"Builders are running extremely lean in terms of inventories," he said.

"The previous decades had been lean in terms of creativity in costume jewelry," Mr. Top said.

Zipcar, we did start very lean in terms of service and became more beautiful as time went on.

Not one seemed to lean toward terms such as "insurrection," "revolt," anti-government "insurgents" or, as some on social media were calling them, "terrorists".

I think it's probably the most formative feedback I've been given — that it's fine to be the consensus builder, and I know that's where I lean in terms of my leadership DNA, but now I am more comfortable saying, "This is what we're going to do.

"Green" initiatives will soon represent "lean" in terms of getting rid of waste and inefficiency and they help in the trust-rebuilding department.

"We've been running the company very lean in terms of outside capital, re-investing cashflows and growing at near break even.

Those on the ground  the chaos of aerial bombardment often lean on terms like "vacuum bomb" to convey a sense of destructive scale. .

This approach provides a window into the local translations of lean, in terms of the extent to which, how, and why lean is transformed.