Sentence examples for quite lean from inspiring English sources

Legs, however, are quite lean.

Inventories are still quite lean, and some restocking is likely to continue.

"I've got an idea of the squad, and I realise it's quite lean," Warburton said.

Pork loin is quite lean and dries out easily; the fatback helps keep it moist.

Depending on the cut, steaks can be very fatty (prime rib) or quite lean (filet mignon).

Most preparations involve tenderizing the meat — which is quite lean — through some combination of massage, blanching, braising, and blunt force.

Still, he said, he believes that to make it a viable, "not quite so lean" full-time career, he needs to work more acres.

The story, given the whopping sources (The Book of Job, the work of Thomas Hobbes, etc) is actually quite a lean beast: Nikolay (Aleksei Serebryakov) lives with his second wife, Lilya Elena Lyadovaa from Zvyagintsev's Elena), and moody teenage son in a modest villa overlooking a lake.

Shena Winning, 47, the group's chief finance director, says: "He runs quite a lean and mean configuration.

This is because the breed is genetically quite a lean animal.

If all goes according to plan, indigenous Qataris and at present there are only about 150,000 of them could one day be among the world's richest people.Bright as the future may be, Qatar faces quite a few lean years before it gets there.