Sentence examples for to be slender from inspiring English sources

How important is it for young men to be slender, and does the preference for slenderness influence the food and the physical activity patterns?

Elapids tend to be slender and agile.

Found throughout the world, canines tend to be slender long-legged animals with long muzzles, bushy tails, and erect pointed ears.

The atheriniform silversides, flying fishes, needlefishes, and halfbeaks tend to be slender, elongate fishes, up to 0.3 to 0.9 metre (two to three feet) in length.

It was nothing like in Eastern Africa, where he had previously worked, where the natives tended to be slender, less confusingly muscular.

The patient turned out to be slender, with purplish skin, fine threadlike smoker's wrinkles around his mouth and cheeks and a chest that looked as wide and rounded as a wine barrel.

Skeletal material revealed Botai horses to be slenderer and more similar to Bronze Age domestic horses than to wild horses from the older sites, providing evidence of domestication.

One type of assimilation in Irish is found when a coronal consonant (one of d, l, n, r, s, t) changes from being broad to being slender before a word that begins with a slender coronal consonant, or from being slender to being broad before a word that begins with a broad coronal consonant.

After all, his links to Broadway are slender.

Photographs from the time show her to have been slender and tall — Edwin was a few inches shorter — with pale skin, dark hair, and a thin nose.

The ripened grains, dark brown to purplish black, are slender rods 1 to 2 cm (0.4 to 0.8 inch) long.