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UK
/slˈɛndɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsɫɛndɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɛndɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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being of delicate or slender build
a slim girl with straight blonde hair
she was slender as a willow shoot is slender
watched her slight figure cross the street -
having little width in proportion to the length or height
a slender pole -
small in quantity
slender wages
a slim chance of winning
a small surplus -
very narrow
a thin line across the page
How To Use slender In A Sentence
- I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
- A slender man with burnt honey skin and almond eyes grinned and gave Tala a welcoming bow.
- She was already well on her way to becoming an amazon beauty, with long slender legs, perfect, glowing skin and light brown hair with copper streaks cascading over her broad shoulders.
- The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as The Stamps of Canada
- It has trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers and long slender pods containing variously colored edible beans. Chapter 9
- This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
- The slender, spikey fish is regarded as having one of the sturdiest and most flexible forms of animal armour.
- Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand.
- The arches tend to be on high piney ridges, whittled by water and wind and, in the case of a slender pillar at Sky Bridge Arch, by pocketknives.
- Differing from his sister in body as well as in mind, he was a slender, well-set youth, his hair more red than the usual bronze of a dalesman. The Crystal Gryphon