Word Finder - slender

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Thin; slim.

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A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.

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Meagre; deficient

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Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.

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(Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

She screamed and frantically clawed the slender green snake from her arm.

It is so slender and long.

The towering, slender man was looking over a list with a frown.

Her slender frame was relaxed, her breathing deep and peaceful.

Her large blue-green eyes were clear and calm, the curves of her slender frame complemented by the cut and drape of the dress.

One was of medium height and slender, an older man with sharp green eyes the color of forest moss who seemed out of place in the middle of the room.

He took a step closer, his blond hair and green eyes highlighting a slender face.

Lisa felt an immediate bond with the slender mother of her rescuer.

There was one such king who had four sons, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred, and Alfred. The three older boys were sturdy, half-grown lads; the youngest, Alfred, was a slender, fair-haired child.

From her long neck to her slender ankles, Claudette was dainty and feminine.

Slender, dark-haired Ashley was standing outside, waiting.

He surveyed her slender figure with obvious appreciation.

According to the custom of the time he had augmented his slender salary by private trade.

Her hair glowed as if it were on fire, and she floated, her slender form clad in simple leggings and a tunic.

The delicate shape of her slender neck and shoulders drew his eye.

His skin was golden, his wide back muscled, lean and defined down to the slender hips and waist.

Hannah was beautiful in the model sense, with a slender form and large eyes that grew wider when they swept over him.

The slender Immortal glanced up from his computer.

The faded jeans circled her slender hips slightly below the naval.

In the royal Siamese breed the head is rather long and pointed, the body also elongated with relatively slender limbs, the coat glossy and close, the eyes blue, and the general colour some shade of cream or pink, with the face, ears, feet, under-parts, and tail chocolate or seal-brown.

And lowering his big arm he offered it to the slender little girl.

Deidre's hand went to her neck, where Darkyn had placed a slender collar.

He stopped abruptly and faced her, clutching her shoulders as he shook her slender frame.

Take me, take me! prayed Natasha, with impatient emotion in her heart, not crossing herself but letting her slender arms hang down as if expecting some invisible power at any moment to take her and deliver her from herself, from her regrets, desires, remorse, hopes, and sins.

Lana glanced at her own palms, which were soft and slender.

The general construction of wooden screens is close panelling beneath, on which stands screen-work composed of slender turned balusters or regular wooden mullions, supporting tracery more or less rich with cornices, crestings, &c., and often painted in brilliant colours and gilded.

She was still sitting before a looking-glass with a dressing jacket thrown over her slender shoulders.

After she felt herself deserted by Princes Mary and alone in her grief, Natasha spent most of the time in her room by herself, sitting huddled up feet and all in the corner of the sofa, tearing and twisting something with her slender nervous fingers and gazing intently and fixedly at whatever her eyes chanced to fall on.

Kris pursed his lips, wanting to release the curses coiled on his tongue.  He looked her over.  She'd at least worn sturdy shoes, long pants and shirt.  She was in decent shape, slender and toned from Pilates and the gym.

With his other hand, he removed the slender collar he had placed around her neck when she arrived.

Beautiful and slender, she offered a faint smile.

Claire twisted to see who spoke and was struck by the tall, slender man who stepped from the shadows of the forest.

In 1822, under the influence of John Mitchell Mason (1770-1829), the Associate Reformed Synod combined with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, but the majority was too slender to make the union thorough.

Hind feet with one or two phalanges, in the first toe forming a distinct tubercle visible externally; the second and third toes very slender, of equal length, joined as far From Gould.

Hind-feet short and broad, with five welldeveloped toes; the first large, nailless and opposable; the second and third slender and united by a common integument as far as.

The head is elongated, with a slender muzzle and the mouth-opening small.

The two lower incisors are long, very slender, sharp-pointed and horizontally placed.

The lower jaw is slender, nearly straight, 2-3 and without a coronoid process or inflected angle.

Boris, with one leg crossed over the other and stroking his left hand with the slender fingers of his right, listened to Rostov as a general listens to the report of a subordinate, now looking aside and now gazing straight into Rostov's eyes with the same veiled look.

She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery.

A slender lady dressed in an expensive looking dark suit swung out of the car and stood, slowly shutting the door.

It was solid and slender with no release mechanism or clasp.

He jabbed his thumb toward the wall behind him, where she made out the slender nickel doorknob in the space between two shelves of ancient books.

For a moment his gaze lingered on her slender figure as she walked into the kitchen.

His assistant was slender and handsome, the only other besides Gerry to smile.

Tall and slender, the woman's eyes were piercing, her dark hair and pale features setting off the green of her eyes even more.

The male flowers are in small clusters on the usually slender and pendent stalk, forming an interrupted catkin; the stamens vary in number, usually six to twelve.

By this slender tie the crown of Italy was joined to that of Germany; and the formal right of the elected king of Germany to be considered king of Italy and emperor may be held to have accrued from this epoch.

The column (b) is generally long, slender and stalklike (hydrocaulus).

The sensory cells are slender epithelial cells, often with a cilium or stiff protoplasmic process, and should perhaps be regarded as the only ectoderm-cells which retain the primitive ciliation of the larval ectoderm, otherwise lost in all Hydrozoa.