Sentence examples for was a lean from inspiring English sources
Jimmy Greaves was a lean and frictionless craftsman.
For Yeats, he was a "lean image of hungry speculation".
1937 was a lean year, in many respects.
Mr. Sawhill was a lean six-footer, ascetic in behavior and diet.
Guthrie was a lean, healthy-looking, brown-eyed man in his mid-thirties.
It was a "lean start-up" before that term was widely used.
"There was a lean-to shade off to the side, and I set up work between the two doors.
If you're buying a big-ticket co-op in the heart of Manhattan, don't choose a lawyer whose biggest deal was a lean-to in the boonies.
Our aim was a lean-to three miles from the start of the Hundred Mile Wilderness, the most remote stretch of the Appalachian Trail's 2,100 miles, and either the tail end or the soul-stirring start for hundreds of "through-hikers" who take up the Georgia-to-Maine (or Maine-to-Georgia) challenge each year.
Last month, he told investors the aim was a "leaner" organisation which spends less on marketing.
It is a lean, mean, musical machine.
