Meanings of lean by in English

Tonight, I feel exhausted and lean by the merch table.

He drew it towards him, and Jenny was made to lean by his sudden movement.

Chief executives are also telling their chief financial officers to keep balance sheets lean by using leases, he said.

Now you can, and most riders do, make the bike lean by body movement to one side or another.

The next few years were kept lean by the suing, and the drain stopped only when he lost the suit.

Matthew glanced once... then again... a third time, more than a glance... at her brown body, made lean by gaolhouse soup.

But think of the gastronomic ups and downs of a bird that is fat and lean by turns twelve times a year!

It is most surprising that the Ottomacs do not become lean by swallowing such quantities of earth: they are, on the contrary, extremely robust.

Did you ever hear of a man's growing lean by the reading of "Romeo and Juliet," or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned?

But she had no hat-pin in the close-fitting toque lent by Beverley.

Of these works forty-three were lent by New York owners, as follows:

FREDDY leans by the piano, watching her; she plays, more and more enthralled.

A heavy curved sword leaned by the headboard behind Welstiel, and she froze.

She had removed her veil, and the long, brown cloak lent by Beverley.

She sprawled on the grass and he leaned by her side.

Near at hand they proved the enchantment lent by distance.