Leaning means A tendency or propensity. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like inclination or tendency.
Leaning in a sentence
Related words
Leaning meaning
A tendency or propensity.
Example sentences (20)
But leaning out of her balcony, she hears the dynamic preaching of Paul and decides on a radically different path.
Chances are, you’re leaning toward a name that ends with an “a” — Luna, Eva, Emma, Amelia, Sophia or Isabella.
If this isn't possible, support your child in a forward-leaning position and give five back blows from behind.
After the strong first season, season 2 felt like it devolved slightly by leaning further into the murder-mystery aspect.
But, we continue to see attractive growth opportunities really across our business and are leaning into them.
In a hypothetical three-way matchup, Haley would win 11 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters.
A wall at Veterans Memorial Field in Springdale is leaning toward the stadium and away from Lincoln Avenue.
Half of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said in a that they had a better chance with Biden than someone else.
Hurley has used his knowledge to help UConn, leaning on him for advice and having him speak to the team on several occasions.
I’m leaning towards 2024, especially with how tidily it would line up with the event’s 40th anniversary.
It could make Gwen fall harder for Dimitri and leave her leaning toward accepting his marriage proposal.
Leaning into the debut era is particularly easy in Nashville since the city itself shaped Swift’s persona in those early years.
Fred hit a slingshot to send Juice into the ladder as it was leaning against the ring post at 14:30.
But the bigger, nerdier deal is that Dave Filoni is leaning into the lore of the Expanded Universe.
I think that the kind of way to put it is that the U.S. market has been probably the most forward leaning on in flight connectivity.
I was in the hospital and they took the walking wounded out to show us the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Andrew D'Arnay wearing an original referee jersey while he is leaning on 'Bruce', a Utility Terrain Vehicle named after his father-in-law.
Despite those credentials and Roy's reputation as a partisan bomb thrower, Hook faces an uphill battle in the right-leaning 21st District.
A duet between a samurai and his western-leaning friend beautifully splices together American and Japanese landscapes, rhythms and attitudes.
Israeli viewing habits are changing, leaning more rightward, and Channel 14 is taking off as Israelis tire of left-wing propaganda in their news.
Common combinations with leaning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- leaning into 36×
- leaning on 25×
- leaning towards 14×
- is leaning 13×
- are leaning 12×
- leaning toward 11×
- leaning against 9×
- was leaning 7×
- leaning tower 6×
- leaning heavily 5×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word leaning. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.