Example sentences for: thin

How can you use “thin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Boyle's Helen is a thin dirty joke rescued only by a good punch line (and Boyle, who drops her voice to a husky whisper, looks wildly out of place in this clearly Jewish family).

  • A bit of hackwork, it suggested that he might be spreading himself too thin.

  • As Saturday Night Live skits-turned-movies go, this one "makes The Blues Brothers look like Kurosawa" (Susan Wlosczyna, USA Today ). A three minute skit about two pathetically eager "delusional poseurs" (Tamara Ikenberg, the Baltimore Sun ) who'll do anything to get into the Roxbury nightclub, is now an hour and a half of the same, which wears thin by the end.

  • In the first, Joshua, a k a Jesus, is born in a sleazy East Texas motel room (the woman screaming for sex is on the other side of a thin wall).

  • Instead of mixing his colors on the palette, Close built up his images by applying thin layers of primary colors directly onto the canvas.


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