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Meanings of slimness in English

A small margin.

The property of an attractively thin person.

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Examples for "narrowness"
Examples for "narrowness"
1
The narrowness of the pathway gave the advantage to the Italian commander.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
2
In this way the narrowness of the streets may be accounted for.
The Land of the Kangaroo / Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey...
3
The universality of the Gospel is overflowing the banks of Jewish narrowness.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
4
They looked the taller because of the narrowness of the street itself.
Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
5
We waded in and discovered that the cause was its extreme narrowness.
Under the Andes
1
Clinton would later lose the state by a narrow margin to Trump.
Reuters
2
If independence is rejected it will be by a relatively narrow margin.
The Guardian
3
And usually by a narrow margin, which is in turn usually misleading.
The Irish Times
4
They realized that only by a narrow margin had it missed them.
Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal; Or, Perils of the Black Bear Patro...
5
Incumbent Haider al-Abadi had been tipped to win by a narrow margin.
Reuters
Usage of slimness in English
1
The extreme slimness of her figure seemed accentuated by her backward poise.
The Betrayal
2
What is the rationale for the admiration of slimness as against stoutness?
The Foundations of Personality
3
The slimness of attenuation was merged in that of wiry strength and muscle.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
4
The tendency of the new generation is towards unusual height and gracious slimness.
As We Go
5
He was dark and very slim-withthe slimness of steel wire.
Fanny Herself
6
He was as slim as a sapling, the slimness of muscle and health.
Kenny
7
He is a rather heavy and sizable boy for all his saintly slimness.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
8
His slimness, as McDowell had noted, was the slimness of a young girl.
The River's End
9
He had passed through slimness and skinniness, had traveled through scrawniness.
The stand
10
And again he was conscious first of her slimness, her smallness.
Then I'll Come Back to You
11
One hears me like a locomotive, now that I have lost my slimness.
The Last Hope
12
Oh, a certain rounded slimness-whatmy cook calls a nice little corn-fedchicken.
Strong as Death
13
Her slimness was as it had pictured itself to him in the hot sands.
The Flaming Forest
14
She had the lithe slimness, and the greens and browns that suggested the outdoors.
Where the Sun Swings North
15
He sat up and shyly fitted his palm about the slimness of her waist.
Main Street
16
Her figure was stunning, and her slimness meant that her breasts were truly amazing.
Slow decay
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