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Example sentences for: lean

How can you use “lean” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It has created the lean retailer.
3 However, until the 1990s, retailers had neither the data collection and computing capabilities required to execute these models effectively nor the tremendous impetus to implement them that lean retailing has precipitated.
However, our sample also reveals that some manufacturers began to adjust to the new demands of lean retailing: By 1992, the median dropped to ten hours, reflecting their desire to reduce the amount of work-in-process at this beginning stage of apparel assembly.
If I lean back in my chair ever so slightly and look out my window, I can see the dome of the Texas Capitol and, just to the southwest, the top of the governor's mansion.
These investments consist of the capacity to receive and transmit information electronically—the minimum set of practices required for working with lean retailers.