(Of a person or animal) Narrow in size, and usually indicating carrying little fat.
Having a tone of a reed instrument.
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Examples for "thin"
Examples for "thin"
1Young and thin, Miss Leroy never gave Olson Read a second thought.
2She'd gone out with a too-tall, too-thin history major for several months.
3Still, analysts said given the thin trading volume, volatility will likely prevail.
4Muhyiddin has had a razor-thin majority since coming to power in March.
5The not so thin blue line meant sure escape was not possible.
1Weight cycling was able to restore the health characteristics of lean animals.
2This project has made talk about empowerment and lean management a reality.
3While the cardio group lost weight, they also lost lean body mass.
4In the longer term, an integrated, mandatory, lean procurement structure is necessary.
5He stood far back, so he had to lean forward to point.
1The Conservative party can form a government but its majority is slender.
2Eve was slender and delicate, far too precious to risk so pointlessly.
3A slender boy in grey was waiting for them in the veranda.
4Then the slender shuttle is passed in and out among the threads.
5Near the trunk of the cottonwood stood a slender woman in white.
1Perales said that without government backing the chances of change are slim.
2He said he was confident the region would keep its slim lead.
3Protecting a slim lead, the US needed discipline in the second half.
4You were a hope -however slim -to find Mary Terror.
5Margins on Iraq's southern projects are slim by comparison, say industry sources.
1There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.' That's one of them.
2Although skinny and in need of food, there were no obvious wounds.
3I hope the skinny branch is strong enough to hold my weight.
4Spain are in their new kit: cravats, neckerchiefs and red skinny jeans.
5Dozens of long, skinny, single-story warehouses run parallel down toward the water.
1See the rocks down there? He lifted Richard's head on the reedlike neck.
2Decisively, now, burst forth the reedlike chords of music.
3The Wisdom Servant, deprived of its animating field, had collapsed into a tangle of reedlike protuberances.
4The few men in evidence were also slender; reedlike figures emphasized by form-fitting clothes, gestures rapid, stances balletically defiant.
5It was woven of reedlike wooden strips, a deep brown instead of the straw color she was used to seeing.
1Don't talk, she said, and that lovely voice was reedy and wasted.
2All the water seems to drain into the reedy swamp and clay-pans.
3She leans closer to Anna, lowering her voice to a reedy whisper.
4Their reedy sibilance built steadily until the spaceplane rocked on its undercarriage.
5Reuel, now throwing one reedy leg over the side of the cab.
6Dr. Christensen cleared his throat, then spoke, his voice thin and reedy.
7There was a reedy dryness in his throat that Will found disquieting.
8His voice is lyrical and reedy, and he obviously enjoys explaining his work.
9The frogs in their reedy beds croaked and chirruped without ceasing.
10When he spoke, Charles heard sorrow and resolve in the reedy metal voice.
11Presently I was in a land of lush water-meadows and slow reedy streams.
12At five miles, one mile to the south is a large reedy swamp.
13She saw again the reedy reaches and the steep mountain shores.
14There are plenty of moor-hens or water-hens in these reedy pools.
15His voice sounded exactly as Gordon had expected, thin and reedy.
16Faintly he raised his feeble voice, like the gale of the reedy Lego.
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