Example sentences for: leaning

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

  • Very soon he was touring the country, bringing back new ideas about line and volume, as in Telegraph Poles, Texas (1915): some stripped trees leaning over, bearing aloft a neat grid of wires, towering over flatland and stumpy shacks.

  • Of course both these groups--the Roseannes and the Murphy Browns, you might say--are currently leaning heavily for Clinton.

  • Leaning on anecdotal evidence, the LAT says in a front piece that California's most severely ill mental patients get sufficient care only after actual or near catastrophes.

  • The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times lead with yesterday's revelation that the House-appointed "managers" of the impeachment case against President Clinton are leaning towards conducting a full-bore trial in the Senate, complete with the examination of witnesses.

  • The native peoples are back again in areas like this, leaning far out over precarious rocky ledges to pluck with dip nets just a tiny amount of salmon, compared with the millions caught by the commercial fisheries at the Fraser estuary.


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