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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:

An economy consisting of lean retailing and corresponding “lean” suppliers operates in a fundamentally different manner from one based on traditional retailing and supply practices.
Kazan was a brilliant director, but he's already been saluted for that, so why give him a lifetime achievement statue and not, say, John Ford or David Lean?
At one extreme, a manufacturer can simply hold inventory for lean retailers and make few changes in its internal practices.
The reliance of lean retailing on the promulgation of standards of performance has been well documented in this book.
It is a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard athletic narrative prose.