Definition: 1. Being of delicate or slender build. 2. Very narrow. 3. Having little width in proportion to the length or height. 4. Small in quantity. 5. Gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease.
Use 'slender' in a sentence:
1. Transverse vibration and dynamic stability analysis of slender projects under thrust.
2. Individuals are often tall and slender with an asthenic habitus ("marfanoid" look) and prone to osteoporosis.
3. She has a slender waist.
4. He might be respited by the adjudication in respect of the relatively slender criminal context.
5. If the entertainment industry really cared about sending the wrong message on body image, it wouldn't need so many slender celebrities in the first place.
6. By the time she reached her late teens, she had written enough poetry to put together a slender book of verse.
7. She was tall and of slender figure, and of a dazzling whiteness.
8. He stuck his nose out of the doghouse and saw four slender, hairy animals.
9. Leaves develop chlorosis; stems are short and slender, and anthocyanin discoloration occurs on stems, petioles, and lower leaf surfaces.
10. All girls want to be slender.
11. The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.
12. Australia held a slender 1–0 lead at half-time.
13. Even a slender diplodocus, once believed to have tipped the scales at five and a half tonnes when alive, has lost a tonne and a half from its weight.
14. Numerical simulation and physical characteristics analysis for slender wing rock.
15. The girl has a tall and slender figure.
16. The distributed parameter system theory of the autopilot design of the slender vehicle.
17. Her dresses were in jewel patterns, which have been seen before on many runways, but looked cool when the frills spilled down one side of the slender dresses.
18. How unseemly are these weak and slender feet!
19. These species also differ morphologically: grass dwellers are slender with long tails, tree-dwellers are stocky with long legs, twig dwellers are slender but stubby-legged.
20. Huff raised it 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings—long, slender columns of wood anchored deep in the sand.
21. King Chulin, the king of the state of Chu, was very found of officials with slender waists.
22. Australia held a slender 1 – 0 lead at half-time.
23. I pulled up behind a queue of slender women at the wheels of shiny SUVs.
24. Design and Construction Study of Tall and Slender Steel Tower Structure.
25. He had a tiny plump body and a delicate beak, and slender delicate legs.
26. Research on Dynamic Properties for the Slender Shaft.
27. He was a beautiful creature, with slender legs, bright, intelligent eyes, and a mane that hung down over his neck like a veil.
28. Method of High Speed Dynamic Balance to Balance a Slender Flexible Rotor.
29. Calculation of Natural Periods for Steel Vertical Slender Vessels With Transfer Matrix Method.
30. Blonde and slender, she was too striking to escape their attention.
31. The cause analysis on equipment foundation crack of slender concrete.
32. Japanese scholars have been mystified for ages about why these tall, slender buildings are so stable.
33. The caudal peduncle is very slender and includes three sets of keels.
34. Fanny was a pretty and slender girl.
35. Her skin is porcelain with a smattering of freckles and she is slender, almost fashion-skinny.
36. The crusher claw is short and stout; the cutter claw is long and slender.
37. My idea of physical perfection is to be very slender.
38. She envied even more the goats that climbed over bushes, stones, and steep inclines with their slender legs.
39. The slender stalks are weighed down with flowers.
40. A slender skewer, usually ornamented at the top, used decoratively, especially in serving garnishes.
41. A slender form of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs.
42. From the top the slender yellow style rises, pushing two rough curving horns out beyond the flower-tube.
43. The girl was pretty and slender.
44. He fumbled the one slender chance we had.
45. I never did see anything so slender and so fine, so soft and so neat.
46. The birch has smooth bark and slender branches.
47. The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.
48. The blind fury here is the mythological figure Atropos; this is the Fate that cuts the slender thread by which our lives dangle.
49. Her legs were long and fine, her hips slender, her carriage erect.
50. Sherry is black, tall, slender and soft-spoken.
51. The slender willow branches were swaying gently in the breeze.
52. She was slender, with delicate wrists and ankles.
53. The United States held a slender lead.
54. She was of below average height, petite and slender.
55. The use of steel and concrete has allowed the builders to perch a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.
