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LEANING

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leaning I. adjectiv

înclinat.

leaning II. substantiv

1. (to) aplecare, înclinare: înclinăţie (spre, către).

2. (fig.) (towards) slăbiciune, simpatie (pentru).

3. înclinare, pantă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She did not stoop towards me, but only gazed, leaning back in her chair.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Dick softly raised her; and she stood, when she began to speak, leaning on him, and looking down upon her husband—from whom she never turned her eyes.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"Can I do anything for you, Madam Mother?" asked Laurie, leaning over Mrs. March's chair with the affectionate look and tone he always gave her.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his lids now and glanced across at his visitor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Near the window his wife was crouching, her head leaning against the wall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was Holmes’s Alpine-stock still leaning against the rock by which I had left him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-sheets—him I could always recognize—while a couple of men were leaning over the stern bulwarks, one of them with a red cap—the very rogue that I had seen some hours before stride-legs upon the palisade.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Beside it sat the dead man, leaning back in his chair, his thin beard projecting, his spectacles pushed up on to his forehead, and his lean dark face turned towards the window and twisted into the same distortion of terror which had marked the features of his dead sister.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then rising, she went away to join Marianne, whom she found, as she expected, in her own room, leaning, in silent misery, over the small remains of a fire, which, till Elinor's entrance, had been her only light.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Yet all order had not been lost amongst them, for some hundreds of the better armed stood together in a silent group, leaning upon their rude weapons and looking up at the fire, which had spread so rapidly as to involve one whole side of the castle.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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