Meanings of grew lean in English

Her shoulders had become plump while her hands grew lean and wrinkled.

As it was, their sides grew lean and their skin hung loosely upon them.

He grew lean in body and curt of speech.

Yes, we who were fat grew lean as trek oxen at the end of winter.

Every day while we were there the men worked hard, and grew lean and sun-browned, and thrived on it.

Horses grew lean and ill-fitting saddles worked their wicked will upon backs that shrank to their touch of a morning.

Kornel, hard as iron always, grew lean and stooped, and there appeared in his face a kind of wild care that frightened me.

They grew lean and red-eyed from fatigue, and short of temper and ever more fanatical-andsecurity men moved about in seeming uselessness but never-ceasing vigilance.