![]() His hands held her slender arms in a grip that hurt, and his mouth was only inches away from her own.Lissa's slender fingers curled into fists at her sides.She returned to the letter in her hand, turning it over in her slender fingers before opening it.The long slender arms are flexible, unlike the starfish shown previously.She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband.She ticks them off, one by one, on her long slender fingers.Gabriel was a tall slender young man with a light brown moustache.It has a slender torpedo-shaped body with slightly elongated finnage.A spider was hanging from a slender thread.The third quarter's slender profit was still an improvement on previous results.Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.The tall, slender man and his goofy wife had been guests in the family compound.The Democrats had only a slender majority in Congress. ![]() She had long, slender expressive hands, like a concert pianist.She was beautiful, too: tall and slender, effortlessly and unselfconsciously elegant, even in her muddy farm clothes.The pictures are held in place by three slender brass rods.Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long, shiny red boots.The path led through the slender birch trees.Film stars and fashion models became more slender because their angles photographed better on screen and in magazines.Mandy was slender and very fair with long golden hair.The girl's body was curved and slender and my hands were straying to the ribbons on her bodice.In everyday English, people usually say slim or thin: I don’t know how she stays so slim. slenderness noun Register Slender sounds rather literary. We had to make the most of our rather slender resources. The Republicans won the election by a slender majority. Laura’s tall, slender figure slender legs/arms/fingers etc ► see thesaurus at thin 2 LITTLE/NOT MUCH small or very limited in amount or size SYN slim The company only has a slender hope of survival. ○○ adjective 1 THIN PERSON THIN OBJECT OR MATERIAL thin in an attractive or graceful way SYN slim She is slender and stylish.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English slender slen‧der / ˈslendə $ -ər /
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