We found 38 examples of how to use slender in an English sentence.
Sentences 26 to 38 of 38.
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| 26. | They were almost two days without eating, so much were they transported with joy. They broke above a dozen laces in trying to lace themselves tight, that they might have a fine, slender shape, and they were continually at their looking-glass. | |
| 27. | Their sports were of a childish, pastoral character; Chloe would neglect her flock to roam in search of day-lilies, the stalks of which she twisted into traps for locusts; while Daphnis often played from morn till eve upon a pipe, which he had formed of slender reeds, perforating them between their joints, and securing them together with soft wax. | |
| 28. | It occurred to him that he might endeavour to persuade Chloe's father to receive him as her suitor, flattering himself that he was far superior to her other admirers. But there was one obstacle which gave him no little uneasiness: — Lamon, his own father, was not rich; and on remembering this, his chances of success seemed very slender. | |
| 29. | Mary has long slender legs. | |
| 30. | Is your name Slender Warrior? | |
| 31. | Mary is slender, isn't she? | |
| 32. | Beautiful and pale as the fabulous Naiad in the last agony of separation from her lover, she was seated so as to rest with her back against a part of the ruined wall, while her mantle, dripping with the water which her protector had used profusely to recall her senses, clung to her slender and beautifully proportioned form. | |
| 33. | She is tall and slender. | |
| 34. | The fishermen in that lake see distinctly under the water, in calm weather, ecclesiastical towers, which, according to the custom of the country, are slender and lofty, and moreover round; and they frequently point them out to strangers travelling through these parts, who wonder what could have caused such a catastrophe. | |
| 35. | Cooks are dicing onions, stirring sausage, slicing tuna in slender chunks, their work spare and clean. | |
| 36. | I shall never forget her tall, slender form, outlined against the bright light. | |
| 37. | He is as slender as a reed. | |
| 38. | Skinny as he is, he's not slender at all. |