Example sentences for: leaned

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

  • Kemp leaned closer, speaking more loudly than was necessary, perhaps to compensate for the rush of air around them and the clatter of steel wheels beneath and behind.

  • She reminded him of the rule of pre-existing conditions (Al Hunt leaned over and explained this rule to me.

  • The sickest detail: When Harris found Cassie Bernall hiding under a desk, he leaned down, said "peek-a-boo," then shot her.

  • The newspaper was bankrolled by Mafia loans in the '50s, and gangsters leaned on newsstand dealers who refused to sell it.

  • Gregg Birnbaum, a well-informed political reporter for the New York Post , knows of at least one Democratic elected official who was thinking of running but was then "leaned on by powerful people within the Democratic party."


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