adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slim/slender build
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She was very strong despite her slender build.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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However, humanity could survive a glacial; its chances of surviving a runaway greenhouse effect are much more slender .
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She would pave the way for a much more slender ideal: the flapper.
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Terry, who was taller, and far more slender , would look much better in classic lines.
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A taller, more slender can was a tumbler.
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The teeth are longer and more slender than in any other crocodilian.
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Film stars and fashion models became more slender because their angles photographed better on screen and in magazines.
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Naturally, one can use such counter-parallelisms in many other ways, using more dissonant-type chords, or a more slender texture.
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The male of the species tends to be slightly smaller and more slender than the female.
very
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Some species have very slender branches.
■ NOUN
body
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They had graceful, slender bodies , tapering into root-like shapes where a Human would have ankles and feet.
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Hilda wandered around muttering, her already slender body now thin to transparency.
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His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation.
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Ro snakes his slender body from under the makeshift table.
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Of Isabel lying soft and pliant in his arms, her slender body pressed to his.
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The slender body befitted the new aesthetic of the modern con-sumer age, also light and streamlined.
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Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long, shiny red boots.
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Left: The Black Striped Rasbora is built for speed with elongated fins to match its slender body form.
figure
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Her gown was long, emphasising her slender figure , and starkly black.
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Soon, society women were wearing slinky dresses that favored a more small-breasted, slender figure .
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The slender figure rose from the chair, and flung back its veil.
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And almost immediately she'd felt the forceful beam of Ross's hard grey eyes sweeping over her slender figure .
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But nowhere in the throng could Sara see Jenny's fair hair and slender figure .
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His slender figure was plunged first into light then into shadow as he passed before the slitted windows.
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She saw the glint of a silver helmet and the slender figure of a Woman.
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A wool dress sculpted her slender figure and ended at mid-thigh.
finger
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She ticks them off, one by one, on her long slender fingers .
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Idly she traced the pattern of the marble-topped table with a slender finger .
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Lissa's slender fingers curled into fists at her sides.
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She returned to the letter in her hand, turning it over in her slender fingers before opening it.
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Long slender fingers , wedding ring, and a huge ruby on another ring.
form
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Claudia gave up without a struggle to the sensations that were shaking her slender form .
leg
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Long, slender legs showed beneath the swirling pleats of a school skirt.
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Experts said its long, slender legs suggest it was a fast runner.
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She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband.
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First you were a little girl and then you were a teenager with long silvery-fair hair and long, slender legs .
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She walked ahead of me on the narrow path; she had slender legs and pretty ankles.
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Sweetly pretty, in her full flowered dress that hung in soft folds around her slender legs .
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He imagined her long slender legs that would end in a delicious warm triangle.
woman
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She was a thin, slender woman , somewhere in the further reaches of middle age.
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She is a slender woman with a pixy haircut.
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A tall, slender woman moved into the room from the kitchen, wearing an apron.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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slender white candles
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A spider was hanging from a slender thread.
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Gabriel was a tall slender young man with a light brown moustache.
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Mandy was slender and very fair with long golden hair.
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She had long, slender expressive hands, like a concert pianist.
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The Democrats had only a slender majority in Congress.
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The path led through the slender birch trees.
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The pictures are held in place by three slender brass rods.
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The third quarter's slender profit was still an improvement on previous results.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender , peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.
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Film stars and fashion models became more slender because their angles photographed better on screen and in magazines.
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Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long, shiny red boots.
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It has a slender torpedo-shaped body with slightly elongated finnage.
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She was beautiful, too: tall and slender , effortlessly and unselfconsciously elegant, even in her muddy farm clothes.
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The girl's body was curved and slender and my hands were straying to the ribbons on her bodice.
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The tall, slender man and his goofy wife had been guests in the family compound.