Meanings of leant in in English

Then he leant in close and Dryden caught the whiff of cigars.

Cameron leant in the frame of the balcony doorway, watching Rosalind.

I pushed down the front passenger seat, leant in and grabbed her arm.

She leant in towards the front seat, her lips on overload.

He leant in low, and lifted her in an embrace.

Andrea Corr has just leant in close and used the C word to describe someone.

Sunlight leant in golden shafts against the window apertures.

She was sort of leant in on him, it looked like she had passed out maybe.

Maynard leant in closer, and asked him tenderly to speak up; but Hendricks could offer no reply.

She leant in silence against the mantelpiece.

The light cast angular shadows across the wall to Swan's left, where empty picture frames leant in orderly stacks.

He leant in close.

Cardailhac and all the gentlemen, Jansoulet himself, leant in vain out of the windows making desperate signs, That will do!

If I could get him closer he couldn't exert the same pressure round my neck as he leant in to me.

Toshiko, scientific curiosity overcoming her instinctive fear, leant in for a closer look, running one of her hand-held scanners over the body.

The strikingly handsome betrayer leant in sullen and gloomy silence against the mantel-piece, ready to treat all advances with stern and defiant obduracy.