How to Use slender in a Sentence

slender

adjective

• She has a slender figure.
• The bombs are slender and pointy and a little more than a foot wide.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
• The Pine Creek Trail slips down through the woods to join the slender waterway that carved the mighty bridge.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
• Then late returns from Green Bay and the city of Kenosha added to his slender lead.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2020
• The lamb tantuni were slender and deep at the same time.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• The man was described as tall and slender and of an unknown race.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021
• The woman gazes up at the scar that runs in a slender pale curve from the edge of his left eyelid to the edge of his mouth.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The male blossoms have a slender stem; the female flowers are the ones with the fruit behind them.
  — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2022
• The Fiskars 8-Inch Shrub Rake is a slender little rake that’s great for moving in and out of tight places.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022
• The long slender red dogwood twigs add height and drama to the table.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
• On June 11, the sleek and slender young moon will be pairing up with the dazzling planet Venus on the sky's dome.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• The disease caused Whitney, a slender dancer at the time, to gain more than 200 pounds in one year at college.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2023
• Its leaves must be long and slender, like needles, instead of flat and wide.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
• Ground Control is a slender snake of a trail that slithers up the flank of Cockscomb and clings to the curving sandstone.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
• The work consists of a slender disc of corten steel laid flat on the ground that bears the outlines of roses and a pair of praying hands.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2022
• Where the reefs poked up high enough, wind and waves would toss up sand and rubble, forming slender islets.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
• Fabolous has a slender physique and the least fitness experience in the group.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Jan. 2023
• The most dramatic feature is the tail, which can be longer than its slender weasel-like body.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2021
• At the time, my oldest son, Bryant Jr. was of a slender frame, taking after my wife.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2024
• There is only endurance and the slender hope of escape.
  — Caitlin Dwyer, Longreads, 29 May 2021
• O'Donnell, the paramedic who was slender enough to fit down the tunnel, failed on his first attempt to free McClure from the well's tiny shaft.
  — Mark Bone and Gregory Rosati, CNN, 30 July 2021
• But those trees are still slender saplings, each throwing enough shade for maybe a chihuahua.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2024
• Crafted from buttery-soft leather, these tall boots have a more slender shape to put a high-fashion spin on the trend.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2024
• The dinosaur also had less body armor, and its limbs were more slender than others of the same species.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
• The elusive plant, which rarely reveals its slender white petals, lives on trees in remote forests and swamps.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• Birds that fed on insects had slender beaks, just the ticket for plucking insects from the bark of trees.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
• Despite their large size, the birds' bodies are slender, with long, narrow wings and long legs.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 24 July 2022
• With the future of her sport weighing on her slender shoulders?
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 24 May 2024
• This plant has a slender trunk that often comes braided.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2022
• Among the first prisoners stepping off the plane to greet President Putin was a slender brown-haired woman grasping the hand of her young daughter.
  — Aurora Almendral, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024