leant
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How to use leant in a sentence
It has now leant its name to a shadowy cabal known within the German meat-processing industry as the Atlantic group.
In 2009, the bank leant $17.9 million to Krasnaya Polyana, OJSC, but the price-tag on this, too, kept increasing.
Almost 50 nations signed on to the so-called “coalition of the willing” and leant at least some small degree of support.
While many of these may have allowed Salt to blend in, they also leant a certain fashion cred to her style.
The Biennale is always quite intense and feverish, but that heat leant an extra intensity, leant a few extra degrees to the fever.
He leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneThe old man, grizzled, tanned and seamed, leant weakly against the parapet.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeAristide, aglow with a sudden impudent inspiration, leant across the marble table.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeHaggard leant from the window, waving his hand; his wife gazed after the vanishing train, standing like Niobe, dissolved in tears.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsHis cousin amused, stimulated her beyond anything Tom could offer; she sought protection from him, leant upon him.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
British Dictionary definitions for leant
/ (lɛnt) /
a past tense and past participle of lean 1
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