Sentence for thin | Use thin in a sentence

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• James uttered a thin cackle. (8)
• Her little face had grown thin. (12)
• He pressed his lips on her thin fingers. (10)
• But she never would be; too thin and holy! (8)
• His hair straggled over his thin long ears. (8)
• The round of her thin eyelids dwelt on him. (22)
• Be sure you write on thin paper to Lausanne. (10)
• Thin Eastern china, good and really beautiful! (8)
• They had thought him looking very thin and worn. (8)
• In his left arm-pit he held a thin, little stick. (12)
• One thin white line of wind streaked the blue sky. (8)
• Her face was thin, her skin pale, her expression sombre. (12)
• They last, and when we blonde ones cry or grow thin, oh! (22)
• Out from under the clock-face had moved a thin dark figure. (8)
• He could only sit touching her tremulously with thin fingers. (8)
• His sallow face was red; his thin lips compressed to a white line. (8)
• The ring slid down her long thin finger, and settled comfortably. (10)
• The curtains just failed to meet, so that a thin gleam shone through. (8)
• And again that thin foam, like the white of an egg, clung to his lips. (12)
• Miss Naylor, whose thin brown cheeks had flushed, advanced towards him. (8)
• Joe Pillin replaced the deed within his coat, emitting a queer thin noise. (8)
• Hilary leaned his face on his thin hand; it was his characteristic attitude. (8)
• He said nice things, this man with the long legs and the thin brown bumpy face! (8)
• The walls showed bayonet-points: a thin edge of steel encircled a pit of fire. (10)
• This uses thin precast slabs for walls and floors, and precast concrete beams. (17)
• The only justification for thin walls is the slightly reduced cost of materials. (17)
• Something she held in her hands that sent a thin steam between her and the light. (10)
• A thin, refined man, with wiry hair, also came up, holding a newspaper in his hand. (8)
• It was constantly remarked that the Vicar looked very grave and thin, even for him. (8)
• That thin, colorless protestantism of her fathers had faded into a nameless moralism. (13)
• On this basis many select square columns, or thin wooden columns without much entasis. (17)
• Soon he would come back, holding in his thin, veined hand a piece of gold-brown leather. (8)
• A thin gold chain hung round her neck; suddenly she thrust it into the bosom of her dress. (8)
• They whispered in the thin, sweet wind, and gave out their odor in the high, westering sun. (9)
• He was a poor, thin little man, with a wife dying from consumption or something of the sort. (13)
• His companion is a tall, thin, dark bird of the night, with sly, roving eyes, and hollow cheeks. (8)
• She put her hand to her heart, which beat as though it would leap through the thin silk covering. (8)
• He grew thin and old, and both at home and at his office he was irascible to the point of offence. (9)
• In truth it was a thin and rather wild and wasted spirit she was looking at, but it had brave eyes. (8)
• Unlike most violinists, he was tall and thin, with great pliancy of body and swift sway of movement. (8)
• Pressing him close to her thin bosom, she looked above his little dingy head at the two young people. (8)
• She felt hot all over; the palms of her hands were moist beneath the thin silk covering of her gloves. (8)
• The tiny leaves had a transparent look, too thin as yet to keep the sunlight from passing through them. (8)
• Her voice was weak and thin, and she could not govern it from being at times a gasp and at times a drawl. (9)
• Then the thin white cloth roof comes tumbling from above like a monster bird; the encampment is no more. (21)
• She had a thin face, not without refinement, mild, very clear brown eyes, and a twist of smooth black hair. (8)
• After he was gone Gyp sat on till the sun had quite vanished and the dew was stealing through her thin frock. (8)
• His hand stroked down the sleeve beneath the shawl; it seemed to have almost nothing in it, so thin was the arm. (8)
• Gazing at him, so old, thin, white, and spotless, Annette murmured something in French which James did not understand. (8)
• He was content to remark to his doctor, that he thought the third generation of wild oats would be a pretty thin crop! (10)
• Asleep or awake, reading or snoring, fat or thin, hairy or bald, the insulation of their red or pale faces was complete. (8)
• He could only see her eyes, fixed and staring in the dark, but he did not cease to stroke her hand with his thin fingers. (8)
• Idea of the senses, bred For the senses to snap and devour: Thin as the shell of a sound In delivery, withered in light. (10)
• And for long I sat, just watching the moon creep up, and hearing the thin, dry rustle of the leaves along the holly hedge. (8)
• These cheap roofs are built up of poorer grades of slate, and very thin sheets at that, and a poor grade of nail is used. (17)
• On the cold air of this last October night a thin haze hung, and the acrid fragrance from little bonfires of fallen leaves. (8)
• James extended a thin, crooked finger, oddly like the beckoning of a skeleton, and passed through the doorway of his bedroom. (8)
• We have amongst us persons who, under the thin disguise of patriotism, do not scruple to bring hideous charges against public men. (8)
• She became conscious that he was standing just behind her; his figure in its thin covering looked very lean, his face strangely worn. (8)
• As Graves followed Hart into his private office, Cook looked up with a curl on his thin lips that expressed the fulness of his heart. (13)
• And suddenly the thin white spaniel rose, and, like a little harried ghost, slipped on amongst the trees, and the three dogs followed her. (8)
• Small, thin tile are very brittle, and falling limbs and other objects often break individual tiles, and it is very hard to replace them. (17)
• His thin, lopsided nose, the rapid glances of his goggling, prominent eyes, were subtlety itself; he stood for discontent with the accepted. (8)
• Her voice issued from a contracted throat, and was painfully thin and straining, as though the will to speak did violence to her weaker nature. (10)
• Beyond the cornfields, on slightly higher ground, was a thin forest, with breaks here and there in its continuity, denoting plantations, probably. (7)
• The young lord had fair, straight, thin features, with large restless eyes that lighted quickly, and a mouth that was winning in his present colloquial mood. (10)
• He is perhaps fifty-eight, of strong build, rather bull-necked, with grey eyes, and a well-coloured face, whose choleric autocracy is veiled by a thin urbanity. (8)

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