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Example sentences for: leans

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A rangy, purringly diffident blond gentile with blue eyes and a cleft chin, he watches as Pearl slips on a tie-dyed T-shirt, then leans his lips toward her bare throat--and bites off the dangling price tag.
True, much has been confirmed by the ongoing opening of the archives and the sterling work of the special Cold War research project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., on whose delvings Gaddis leans heavily.
Without further explanation, this leans a bit too pro-Democratic for a news story--after all, although Clinton might well have that fear, he also surely wanted to have the treaty as an election issue.
Sonny leans into the window, places his hand on the shoulder of a young man with gelid eyes and blood trickling from one ear, and exhorts him to live , live . He says that there are angels in the car, that the young man has nothing to fear if he accepts Jesus Christ as his savior--and, miraculously, the young man manages to thank him.
Chatterbox leans toward this latter interpretation, because he can't recall ever seeing any true southerner smirk, not even Molly Ivins; hers is a different kind of smile altogether.