Example Sentences

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Alberto Rodriguez, director of robot behavior and AI strategy for Atlas, said a robotic hand must make trade-offs between strength, dexterity, slenderness and ruggedness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

The ASA said the pose of the model and the choice of clothing - including "large pointed shoes" which emphasised "the slenderness of her legs" - made the advert "irresponsible".

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

Those structures, which may be in the shapes of spherical or cylindrical shells, can efficiently carry relatively large loads, but their slenderness makes them susceptible to buckling-induced collapse.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

Braun, too, was single-minded in pursuit of the slenderness that she believed would keep her attractive to men, particularly the man around whom she’d organized her entire life.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2017

But as I studied the closely cropped head and the boyish slenderness of his neck, I decided he was just not used to riding around with ladies.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez