Sentence examples for was too slender from inspiring English sources

At 180 pounds, he was too slender even for Ivy League football, so he turned to rugby at Princeton.

He wasn't my type-he was too slender and too blond-but he was gallant, and that was enough… We loved the excess, but we also felt as though it were make-believe.

This is partly because otherwise the atomic narrative alone is too slender to justify a book.

While efforts have been made to ensure that no one is better off out of work than in, the system is complex and the margins may be too slender to provide an incentive.

The Spaniard was offside but, much like Fernando Llorente's opener for Juventus in the reverse fixture, the margins were too slender for any criticism of the officials to seem reasonable.

A friends-of-Pervez government, including everyone but the MMA, the People's Party and Mr Sharif's faction of the Muslim League, might eke out a majority, though it would be too slender to last.The current parliament, however, is unlikely to deliver stable government.

The German cavalry, in fact, approached the Minsk railway, far beyond Vilna; but the Russians' power of resistance was too great for Ludendorff's slender forces, whose supplies moreover began to run out, and by the end of the month his operations were suspended.

Maybe her books are too deceptively slender.

As for sides, asparagus was charred at the tips and along some of the slender stems; the spinach was too salty to eat.

The result was too squat and compact, and Osborn had a more slender version drawn later the same year.

Ceviche made with sliced shrimp and slender pieces of white fish was a tad watery, and a wild mushroom quesadilla was too tame.