thinly

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Phrases

• thin as a rail
• thin edge of the wedge
• thing or two
• things are looking up
• thin on top
• into thin air
• on thin ice
• spread oneself too thin
• through thick and thin
• wear thin

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Examples

• I tend to use this method when working with far-too-thin gravies and rich, hearty stews where I’ve probably already used some flour earlier in the cooking process but want to thicken it further.

• Typically, you’ll find that saving some money means less material, which equals a thinner vest.

• On a rainy street I found a suit, hat and tie, all perfectly placed and slumped on a bench, as if their wearer disappeared into thin air.

• The IRS staff is stretched thin, meaning there could be delays as the agency juggles both tax filings and stimulus payments.

• To combat this, most touch screen gloves are designed thinner.

• Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.

• “I like decorating my slaves,” she said, referencing the rope, her thin, crimson-coated lips peeling off her front teeth.

• Cheney is relying on some thin evidence to tie Hussein to al-Qaida.

• They were done to give a thin patina of ersatz legitimacy to what is otherwise flagrant sexual assault.

• We had a very thin book that we had to create characters with some different complexity.

• This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.

• The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.

• Her thin and narrow hands held the balcony railing rather tightly.

• His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.

• She saw in the chair a thin, broken figure, a drawn brown face, a wreck of a man.