It is conspicuously slendererand shorter than in the Bittern.
It differs from the other species of the genus by the slenderer proportions of the tibio-tarsus, which is 22 inches long by 2.
They are slenderer than geese's quills, and are used by the Abipones to adorn and crown their heads.
Asparagus grows wild in the plains, but is very bitter, and slenderer than a thread; if cultivated in gardens, it would become quite gigantic.
Its bill is very long, but slenderer than a needle, its eyes extremely lively, and its tongue broad, but thinner than a silken thread.
But the largest tiger is much slenderer than any ox.
What the older bird pronounced with a deep voice, the younger repeated in a slenderer one.
Thus the column grows slenderer from century to century.
The Ionic shaft is much slenderer than the Doric, the height of the column (including base and capital) being in different examples from eight to ten times the lower diameter of the shaft.
Among the points which distinguish this from a work of the fifth century may be noted the slenderer forms of men and women and the more expressive faces.
Across from him Hamilton Burton stood, younger, slenderer and more pliant of pose; his eyes meeting those of his protagonist, level and unwavering.
The Hobby is as big as a small pigeon, but has a slenderer body.
The Kestrel is about the same size as the Hobby, but is a slenderer bird, and its tail is longer.
The day-flying, feeding group have longer, slenderer legs, covered with shorter down, and carry more elaborate markings.
It was a beautiful red-brown in colour, long and slenderer than a number of others in my box of sand, and had a long tongue case turned under and fastened to the pupa between the wing shields.
Broad antennae, slenderer abdomen, and the claspers used in holding the female in mating, smaller wings and more brilliant markings are the signs by which the male can be told in most cases.
She was a slenderer Peggy, with the same blue, honest eyes, the same flaxen hair and rosy cheeks.
They are taller and slenderer than any others to be seen in Greece, and they have thereby lost much of the true Doric character.
The Dolly Varden trout is, in general, slenderer and less compressed than the Eastern brook-trout.
The genus Scomberomorus includes mackerels slenderer in form, with larger teeth, no corselet, and the flesh comparatively pale and free from oil.
The Rangeley trout is much slenderer than the common brook-trout, with much smaller head and smaller mouth.
Gempylus serpens, the snake-mackerel, is a still slenderer and more voracious fish of the open seas.
Its teeth are stronger, especially on the tongue, than in any of our other species, and its body isslenderer than that of the whitefish.
On the California coast Sphyræna argentea is an excellent food-fish, slenderer than the great barracuda but reaching a length of five feet.
We thus see how essential the runners are to the perfection as well as to the acceleration of the carding process for ordinary cotton wool, though for the slenderer and longer filaments of the sea-island kind they are not so well adapted.
All she wanted was an inkling, a clue; the slenderer the better.
He was a man of middle size, who held himself so well that he appeared taller and slenderer than he was.
The former is slendererin the middle than at the base and apex, the latter being turgid, rather spherical, and armed with claws which probably lay hold of the skin while the animal is engaged in suction.
Here and there a group of dark fir or hemlock stood out among the slenderer saplings.
In Charles I's reign they had been both very long and very wide; in his son's time they became much slenderer and less unwieldy.
The buckboard, even slenderer than the buggy, is hardly more than the skeleton of a carriage, but seems none the less popular on that account.
The Pillars of the Corinthian Order have no other Proportions than the Ionick, except in the Capital, whose height make them appear slenderer and higher.
The point of likeness, if any, lies in the arcades, with their columns of true Italian type, slenderer than those at Venice, and using the pointed arch in the outer and the round arch in the inner range.
The male has a slenderer frame and is more docile, with no voice beyond a suppressed hiss when angry, or a croak.
Guenther informs me that the males are always smaller than the females, and generally have longer and slenderer tails; but he knows of no other difference in external structure.
The male of the Cottus scorpius, or sea-scorpion, is slendererand smaller than the female.
Gunther informs me that the males are always smaller than the females, and generally have longer and slenderer tails; but he knows of no other difference in external structure.
They are chaffy throughout, but more especially at the base, with narrow pale ferruginous scales, intermixed with still slenderer paleaceous hairs.
The stalks are tufted, and are perhaps a little slenderer than those of C.
Topotypes of contractus differ from those of Thomomys bottae levidensis in larger size, darker color and longer, slenderer skulls.
In spiders, the heart in general is a long dorsal vessel as in insects, but supposed to be confined to the abdomen, growing slenderer towards each extremity, particularly the anal.
When they terminate in a minute joint, much slenderer than the preceding one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slenderer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
