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180 examples of Leaned in a sentence

Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily.
He leaned back in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again.
He leaned toward her, and added in a lower voice, "Another thing, Kate I won't."
drawled Tarvin, as he leaned over the table and met the gaze of the satin-clothed being with an air of good comradeship, which invited him to let him into the fraud, if there was one.
The groom leaned forward.
The letters leaned against one another, and drooped down over each side of the door.
Tarvin leaned forward with his chin in his hand, as the Prince slid down from his father's lap, put his hands behind him, and began, without pauses or expression: Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Framed thy fearful symmetry?
All sight of what lay below him was blocked by the thick foliage of trees that leaned forward, bowing their heads together as night-watchers huddle over a corpse.
Tarvin's hands tightened on the reins of his horse, and he leaned forward to stare.
Shall I tell you why you came?""Well, why did I?Speak up.""You came here, as you came to the temple of Iswara, to find that which you will never find, unless" she leaned toward him "I help you.
"Oh, you're sure to be wrong!" he cried; but he leaned forward.
Kate leaned down and took the woman's hand in hers with a grateful pressure.
He leaned back luxuriously, and waved a wasted hand; the grim gate grated on its hinges as it swung back, and they entered together the woman, the child, and the girl.
He leaned forward listening for an instant, and then shouted, "By Indur, it is for him I Scatter their tents!"
He took the seat next her, leaned over and took her hand, as he went on.
The latter rose from the front of the window, upon the sill of which he had leaned with his elbow, and knitted his brow like a man disquieted.
Then he came back to the point where, perhaps, he ought to have begun, and that was to knock at the door against which the stranger had leaned; but this proved useless--for though he knocked ten or twelve times in succession, no one answered, and some of the neighbors, who put their noses out of their windows or were brought to their doors by the noise, had assured him that that house, all the openings of which were tightly closed, had not been inhabited for six months.
You leaned upon my arm--upon this, madame!
She became excessively pale, leaned her beautiful hand upon a CONSOLE, which hand appeared then like one of wax, and looking at the king with terror in her eyes, she was unable to reply by a single syllable.
D’Artagnan leaned against the hedge, after having cast a glance behind it.
Porthos went and leaned against the side of a pillar.
D’Artagnan observed, on the bench nearest to the pillar against which Porthos leaned, a sort of ripe beauty, rather yellow and rather dry, but erect and haughty under her black hood.
D’Artagnan leaned upon the neck of his horse, in order that he might see without being seen.
40 A TERRIBLE VISIONThe cardinal leaned his elbow on his manuscript, his cheek upon his hand, and looked intently at the young man for a moment.
At the end of a quarter of an hour, however, surprised at the length of the journey, she leaned forward toward the door to see whither she was being conducted.
The officer leaned forward, looked at her in his turn, and appeared surprised to see that face, just before so beautiful, distorted with passion and almost hideous.
Almost immediately the door of the carriage was opened, the young man sprang lightly out and presented his hand to Milady, who leaned upon it, and in her turn alighted with tolerable calmness.
Felton leaned for support upon a piece of furniture; and Milady saw, with the joy of a demon, that his strength would fail him perhaps before the end of her recital.
Her elbows were placed upon a mean table, and she leaned her head upon her two hands, which were white as ivory.
I leaned over the table; I laid my finger successively upon every letter; and without a pause, without one moment's hesitation, I read off the whole sentence aloud.
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