THIN in a Sentence

Learn THIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
272 example sentences for THIN, such as:
1. The fog is beginning to thin.
2. Cut the vegetables into thin strips.
3. Faults are thick where love is thin.
4. Draw out the wire until it is very thin.
5. A thin cable carries the signal to a computer.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of THIN
thin
 v.  lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She was there, then, close to him, only a thin board between.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Sometimes their way led them under the shade of an overhanging bank or through the thin obscurity of a clump of leafless trees.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  The blood rushed to his thin skin under the sting of Hale's astonishment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  As he drew near the farm he saw, through the thin screen of larches at the gate, a light twinkling in the house above him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  The tall woman, who had moved away from us toward the dresser, took no notice; but the other, from her cushioned niche, answered complainingly, in a high thin voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  That afternoon, Gerald, his resistance worn thin, had set out to make an offer for Dilcey.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  It showed in the thin hawk nose over the full red lips, the high forehead and the wide-set eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Ellen, busy night and day, doubling the productiveness of Tara to aid the Confederacy, was terrified when her eldest daughter came home from Charleston thin, white and sharp tongued.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Ellen was thin and preoccupied now and on her feet from morning until long after the plantation was asleep.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  Suspense, worry, sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  Cannon rolled past, the drivers flaying the thin mules with lengths of rawhide.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  She looked at Scarlett sideways and scuffed her feet and twisted her thin body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  What he had to announce for this year was, particularly in its revenue-raising aspects, decidedly thin, indeed fiscally neutral.
2  We warned the children not to walk on the thin ice.
3  Faults are thick where love is thin.
4  She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.
5  Towards the city limits the houses begin to thin out.
6  The fog is beginning to thin.
7  The partitions between the toilets were very thin.
8  The body was hidden beneath a thin layer of soil.
9  Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.
10  The child was so thin that you could see her bones.
11  A thin cable carries the signal to a computer.
12  Parliament has not yet begun to combat the deepening economic crisis, and public patience is wearing thin.
13  Cut the vegetables into thin strips.
14  She felt hot, despite being clad only in a thin cotton dress.
15  Draw out the wire until it is very thin.