Sentence examples for slim rather than from inspiring English sources

Matthias is pretty athletically built, but slim rather than tall, so he gained like 60 pounds for this part.

Scientists have found that the DNA in the sperm of obese men who lost weight through gastric-bypass surgery undergoes "epigenetic" changes that may predispose their children to being slim rather than overweight.

It would be hard to imagine a mental illness that better evinces the slippery interplay among fashion, delusion, diagnosis and treatment than anorexia, which announces itself with the appearance of following rather than defying social directives and which women embrace, as they did neurasthenia, as a mode of femininity, in this case to be slim rather than morbidly sensitive and enervated.

They vary greatly in size; some are slim rather than fat; and some are hairless while others bear what appear to be elaborate headdresses, possibly reflecting clothing that prehistoric women actually wore.

But Hiatt's latest hire, Jennifer Rubin, has a tendency to engage in short-cut sliming rather than engaging in the same constructive tone and spirit that my exchanges with Hiatt have had.

Look for slim, rather flat pods.

Yet in 1980, California's electoral clout tipped the scales, by boosting him to a slim majority, rather than a mere plurality, of the national popular vote.

But most are focused on reducing the margin of Mr. Barak's loss to a slim defeat rather than a landslide.

And he's right, but fortunately for him, Slim Shady, rather than being shocking, is becoming familiar, even cantankerously cuddly, setting the stage for the emergence of a new kingfish sometime soon.

Analysts point out that the financial crisis has put pressure on big U.S. financial conglomerates like Citigroup, one of the biggest acquirers in recent history, to slim down rather than bulk up.

Over time he intends to reduce combined capacity by 22%, but he says he will do so by slimming factories rather than closing them.