"we leaned on" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when you want to express support or reliance on someone or something. Example: When times were tough, we leaned on each other for support.
We leaned on each other for conversation when no one else was feeling chatty.
For all the years we shared laughter and joy and all the times we leaned on each other through life's challenges the one constant was the love and commitment of our friendship.
We leaned on each other for strength and hung on tight to one another.
We leaned on some curved iron rails where people leave their bikes and talked about the very esoteric success of The Mulberry Empire, Hensher's mesmerising account of how the civilised world, circa 1830, set out to colonise Afghanistan, and how harmoniously it chimes with the reality of that unfortunate nation's relationship with the world today.
"My earliest memory is probably 1972 … this would have been full pretty much, there would have been people sitting everywhere round here, there was tote windows open up at the top," Richard Rees told me, as we leaned on the rail and watched six greyhounds being paraded around before a race at the Plough Lane track.
So to solve this issue we leaned on technology.
It reminds me of how much we lean on each other.
As an actor, director and artistic director, we lean on our audience to keep us on track".
Bonus: If we lean on each other for social support (and inspiration), we are less likely to be depressed and more likely to be resilient at work.
"Billy is someone who we trust, someone that has been through this before, someone that we lean on a lot," Wade said.
Being part of a team is counting on everyone to do their job but sometimes we lean on each other for different things and in different ways".
