Wondering how to use Leaning in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as inclination or propensity.
Leaning in a sentence
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Leaning meaning
A tendency or propensity.
Synonyms of Leaning
Using Leaning
- The main meaning on this page is: A tendency or propensity.
- Useful related words include: inclination, propensity, tendency, position.
- In the example corpus, leaning often appears in combinations such as: leaning into, leaning on, leaning towards.
Context around Leaning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Leaning
- In this selection, "leaning" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, left, republican, conservative, tower, toward and women stand out and add context to how "leaning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a right leaning court with and and democratic leaning independents often. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "leaning" sits close to words such as agrees, functioning and lynch, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with leaning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Overall, conservative-leaning organizations bought more ads than progressive-leaning groups. (11 words)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is left-leaning, and Meta’s LLaMA is right-leaning. (13 words)
That, in turn, suggests that Republican-leaning legislators benefit more from these business interests than Republican-leaning voters. (18 words)
When either of the dice land on or come to rest leaning against chips, markers, or the side of the table, the number that would be on top if the object the die is leaning on were removed, is the number that is used to make the call. (48 words)
The idea came to Lynch one afternoon after touching the side of a hot car left out in the sun: "I was leaning against a car—the front of me was leaning against this very warm car. (37 words)
I’m leaning toward Option B, and I’m also leaning toward administration’s suggestion to have it in the areas that administration was recommending — not in the industrial area but in the downtown area. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT is left-leaning, and Meta’s LLaMA is right-leaning.
Overall, conservative-leaning organizations bought more ads than progressive-leaning groups.
That, in turn, suggests that Republican-leaning legislators benefit more from these business interests than Republican-leaning voters.
The Senate versions of the budget bill drew early criticism from right-leaning and left-leaning policy groups — for very different reasons.
Currently, the eight remaining justices make up a right-leaning court, with five conservative-leaning justices appointed by Republican presidents.
He continued, “One of the concerns I have, and I majored in journalism, those news stations that are left-leaning or right-leaning, you notice who they talk to.
Previously, verified political advertisers could also target ads using data gleaned from users’ behavior, such as search actions, that categorized them as left-leaning, right-leaning or independent.
At one point, the Lip Kit founder was seen leaning over to touch her baby's head before leaning into Travis, trying to kiss him.
I’m leaning toward Option B, and I’m also leaning toward administration’s suggestion to have it in the areas that administration was recommending — not in the industrial area but in the downtown area.
Leaning Tower of Pisa is leaning just a little bit less thanks to years of remedial engineering works, experts have disclosed.
The gaping disparity in how Right-leaning women are handled and portrayed versus Left-leaning women not only creates a poisonous political climate, it endangers the real equality and fairness we all seek.
Three-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents often get news from network TV, compared with 21% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.
However at official party gatherings (as opposed to both Mandarin-leaning state functions and Taiwanese-leaning party rallies), the DPP tends to use Taiwanese while KMT and PFP tend to use Mandarin.
The idea came to Lynch one afternoon after touching the side of a hot car left out in the sun: "I was leaning against a car—the front of me was leaning against this very warm car.
When either of the dice land on or come to rest leaning against chips, markers, or the side of the table, the number that would be on top if the object the die is leaning on were removed, is the number that is used to make the call.
About a week later, the lawmakers booked the city-owned Riverside Convention Center, drawing outrage from those who said their views weren’t welcome in the Democrat-leaning city.
A duet between a samurai and his western-leaning friend beautifully splices together American and Japanese landscapes, rhythms and attitudes.
After all, there is virtually no doubt that any future Palestinian state will be the embodiment of values that are the diametric antithesis of those to which Left-leaning, progressive liberals profess to subscribe.
After the strong first season, season 2 felt like it devolved slightly by leaning further into the murder-mystery aspect.
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×