Example sentences for: leaning

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

  • [Clinton reaches for a putter leaning against the wall and stands above the first ball.

  • This white paper is notable for two reasons: The first is that the chief author, who is known (fairly or otherwise) for his fondness for heavy regulation, seems to be leaning in a more libertarian direction.

  • The NYT says the House managers are leaning toward calling Jordan and away from calling Currie.

  • "As you know, 'despair' is not in my vocabulary," Dole said, leaning suddenly so that he was looking Kemp in the eye.

  • Schoolchildren are guided into, first, O and, then, A Levels, corresponding to the School and Higher Certificates of my own English youth; these are set from Cambridge and incline, to my mind, to an all too often condescending leaning to local idiom-worship, from which most BeeWees want to free themselves.


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