Example Sentences

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I've wondered about it during the surprise 2020 "Megxit" to the United States, while watching the sympathetically constructed 2022 docuseries "Harry & Meghan" and lately, witnessing Meghan's high-profile blitz of slenderly related new ventures.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

Like Lear, Cox’s Logan seems to have “ever but slenderly known himself,” as Regan remarks to Goneril about their rash father.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2021

Ono, in “An Artist,” or Stevens, the English butler who narrates “The Remains of the Day,” which was awarded the 1989 Booker Prize, are men who have ever but slenderly known themselves.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021

Fridgeir was not a tall man; he was slenderly built, comely in face, not strong.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

In it, wrapped in a piece of blue silk cloth, are feathers: mostly slenderly, gray or white.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech