Example sentences for: leanings

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

  • Given his leftist leanings, it was inevitable that Wilkins would become involved in the pacifist movement in Cambridge, with its close connection to the Communist Party.

  • On even less evidence he speculates that Exley may have had homosexual leanings, to which readers may feel entitled to ask: Doesn't everyone?

  • He's almost Marxist in his leanings.

  • While he denies that he has ever been observant, Avedon confesses to vague spiritual leanings.

  • Eleanor (like all do-gooders motivated by the perilous business of noblesse oblige) might have had her authoritarian leanings, but the point is that FDR wasn't a dictator, and neither was Eleanor, who--whatever she may have mused aloud at the start of the New Deal--never got half the loaf she wanted.


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