Example sentences for: slender

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

  • The book's conceit--an artist awakens in a world of monkeys that mirrors modern "Swinging London"--is alternately judged a "slender idea for satire" (Kakutani) and a hilarious metaphor for "the modern urban savanna" (Gary Krist, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here for Sarah Kerr's review in Slate and here for an excerpt from the book.)

  • The tabs also tout the "shocking" resemblance between the two women but are uncharacteristically restrained in neglecting to mention that there is one (or, more accurately, two) crucial difference in the physiques of slender Jessica and bounteously well-endowed Shoshanna.

  • Upstairs are a couple of rooms of Socialist Realism, with ubiquitous Maos--first, youthfully slender in front of a traditionally rendered mountain, then putting on weight just like those Buddhas.

  • The nucleus of the present building is the main patio — pure Catalan Gothic, with an open staircase leading to a gallery of arches on slender pillars.

  • Overlooking it all is the Flower Pagoda (Huata), a slender relic of the Song Dynasty.


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