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