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Examples of slim in a Sentence
She looked slim and fit for her age.
He has a slim build.
I was a lot slimmer in those days.
They have only a slim chance of winning.
Recent Examples of slim from the Web
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Tuna can now be found in slim pouches or glass jars, as well as the familiar can.
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Female pilots are a slim minority in their field, comprising just four to five percent of all pilots in North America, according to Conde Nast Traveler.
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The good news for anyone who finds the Tribeca Film Festival daunting is that the event, which starts Wednesday, is about the same size as last year’s slimmed-down edition — not that that’s terribly slim.
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Jones walked into the Chiefs practice facility with a noticeably slimmer physique.
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Internet is reminiscent of Facebook Lite, YouTube Go, or Gmail Go, all apps that companies launched as slimmer versions of the original mobile versions.
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Read more: Spranger, who never served in office prior to her slim victory, had a turbulent 15 months on the job, battling county officials and employee unions in grievances and lawsuits.
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While the rest of the industry works toward ever-slimmer bezels that maximize screen space, Sony's ZX Premium 2 has giant top and bottom bezels that look severely dated.
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Friendswood kept its slim playoff hopes alive with a 5-2 victory over Clear Lake.
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Origin and Etymology of slim
First Known Use: 1657
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearslim Synonyms
Near Antonyms
beefy, bulky, chunky, fleshy, heavy, heavyset, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty;
Related Words
angular, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, wiry;
lank, lanky, rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, twiggy, waspish, weedy;
anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, wizened;
Synonym Discussion of slim
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- thin wire
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- a thin soup
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- the slender legs of a Sheraton chair
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- a slim volume of poetry
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- a slim chance
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- a slight build
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- a tenuous thread
Definition of slim
Examples of slim in a Sentence
She started exercising to slim her thighs.
I'll skip dessert; I'm slimming.
Recent Examples of slim from the Web
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That was enough to slim him down to 149.5 pounds, just in time to fight Saturday—the limit was 154 pounds.
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This is a substantial change; most expect large banks to slim down their research departments, for example.
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When Johnson worked out for the Lions after the Bucs released him earlier this month, the team asked him to slim back down to its preferred playing weight of 260 pounds.
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New diet programs to slim down its customers have helped Nutrisystem fatten up its profits to the tune of a three-year annual EPS growth rate of 61%.
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Brown weighed 450 pounds in eighth grade before football workouts and a newfound dietary discipline helped him slim down.
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The streak’s vulnerability was somewhat surprising considering school officials have spent millions to enhance Notre Dame Stadium, adding a giant videoboard, boosting WiFi and widening bench seats by two inches to actually slim down capacity.
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Elliott had urged Citrix to slim down by selling assets and cutting costs.
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There’s an even more fun way to slim down your pet: Exercise together.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'slim.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of slim
1862
SLIM Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of slim for English Language Learners
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: thin in an attractive way
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: small in amount, size, or degree
SLIM Defined for Kids
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