The natural inference was that as the veins were followed deeper the proportion of chalcocite would rapidly diminish, and that a leaner primary zone of chalcopyrite, enargite and other primary minerals would be met.
These are similar in composition to the leaner iron ores of Brazil, called itabirite, but differ in that the silica is in the form of chemically deposited chert, rather than fragmental quartz grains.
The grasses and plants will be paler in proportion as the soil which nourishes them is leaner and devoid of moisture; the earth is leaner and less rich in moisture on the rocks of which the mountains are formed.
I know the stations well at which we can halt to drink, and that good beast yonder, though he will grow leaner and leaner, can journey on with unfailing strength till the sun has risen twice again.
Was it for this you left your leaner soil, Thus to lard Israel with Egypt's spoil?
He was too proud to write again, and he got leaner and leaner and more and more homesick.
So it kept on all the winter--the more it ate the leaner it became.
In any herd that he may fasten on he begins with the fattest animal and works his way down steadily through the leaner kine till not one single beast is left alive.
Soon after that another tiger, leaner and longer than the other two, appeared on the scene and made a grab at the man's coat.
These Australians of British blood are leaner in face, leaner in limb than the Kentish men, and drink whiskey instead of coffee or tea at early morn.
The sailor grew leanerand more silent every day, but San Miniato seemed to grow stouter and more talkative.
Moreover the disease showed no signs of yielding; on the contrary, the action of the vital organ concerned became more and more spasmodic and alarming, while its possessor grew daily leaner and more silent.
She had seen very little of Thorne for the last few weeks, and now it struck her that his face was leaner and browner than it had been and that there were signs of tension in his eyes.
Being, as I have said, a man of monstrous bulk, he was not so nimble in his motions as the leaner fry, nor did not essay to mount upon a ladder among the first.
The yellow lamplight fell gently on his face, now leaner than ever.
You're the fatted calf, but you're sure to come back a lot leanerand maybe with more sense.
They may have been a little leaner and a little thinner, but they were lean and thin men, anyhow.
For comeliness of exterior they care not a rap, and therefore a dress coat sits less easily on their figures than is the case with figures of leaner individuals.
These Arabs are much leaner than the Aeneze, and of a browner complexion.
Gesulino showed a leaner thigh and cheeks less peachy than he.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
