Sentence examples for playing lean from inspiring English sources

We were playing lean, however, and I didn't want to inflict any damage on the pristine year.

Antietam, from Louisville, Ky., has been playing lean, forthright indie-rock since the 1980's and has a new album, "Victory Park" (Carrot Top).

Dunn's playing — lean, incisive, occasionally flamboyant — is very different from Berman's, and he has just the touch this music needs.

The one-man band played "Lean on Me," and Lukas sang along.

On guitar, Jack can blare heavy-metal chords or play lean soul syncopations, fingerpick quietly or screech a distorted lead.

Her band played lean, percussive syncopations tinged with samba, jazz or Cape Verdean funaná; her voice, dusky and leisurely, glided over the bumpy rhythms with sultry aplomb, like a plush hovercraft.

With Mr. Cabrera on acoustic guitar, it plays lean, traditionalist Dominican styles like bachata, son, changui and merengues that are far different from commercial big-band merengue, but just as propulsive.

I mean, yes, we did play "Lean and Bop" twelve times through his AUX cable, drop a bit of kebab meat into his glove compartment and lecture him on how Uber threatens independent taxi drivers with unfair competition for a while.

Yet probe beneath the surface and the evidence is there: British universities are playing a lean game.

His collected short stories, Lasi Claudius Civiliksen salaliittolaisten pöydällä (1964; "The Glass on the Table of the Claudii Civilii Conspirators"), constitute an important social document with stylistic links to the contemporary French nouveau roman (antinovel), and his collected stage works, Näytelmät (1978; "Plays"), lean toward the theatre of the absurd.

Mr. Colin's role is a marked departure for this talented actor, who recently played a lean and hungry predator in "The Dreamlife of Angels".