How To Use Thin In A Sentence

A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE

Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
A heart will not be hurt for pursuing a dream, when you truly want something, all the universe conspires to help you complete the.
As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance. Blood Ninja II
I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.
The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
Come to think of it, it should read "sententia" but you managed to misspell in Latin the word you misspelled in English. When Latin Tattoos Go Wrong
It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
Things have changed a lot since the days of diaries. The Sun
Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
Think roast partridge with wild mushrooms followed by a little pot of chocolate rosemary.
When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
I think a lot of players from bigger clubs have spent time on loan at smaller clubs and it has really helped.
It will probably work out cheaper to hire a van and move your own things.
You'd think he'd have the common decency to apologize for what he said.
The affair isn't the thing that makes me believe he needs to be removed from office – it's the monumental lack of judgment he displayed in abandoning his states and his duties as governor. Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say
Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
I left my swimming things at home.
Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
I have nothing to add to my earlier statement.
ASCII is the standard language of Internet e-mail and newsgroup text, among other things.
However, on the day, they showed such determination and resolution that nothing could stand between them and victory.
Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
This was physical attraction, sexual temptation, nothing more.
Nothing political -- nothing _political_! "he exclaimed. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
Nursing commissioned officer ( NNCO ) is a special necessary colony. Educate to NNCO is a new thing.
Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul
At this point, I can't think of a job I'd like more than a writing gig.
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
That these are things as silently present and inarguable as iron, or night. Times, Sunday Times
His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno. Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help!
As you start your married life together hand in hand, may all the things you're hoping for turn out the way you've planned.
He had just received my check and was apoplectic with rage, declaring he never wanted to see or have anything to do with ‘that woman’ - meaning me - again.
Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
About 40% of all students entering as freshmen graduate within 4 years.
Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison
When it comes to rock music, the line is thin dividing the sacred and the profane. Christianity Today
For example, paper might appear to be two-dimensional because it is so thin.
There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
That's the exact same thing my dad said.
And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well. Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
acting as if nothing borne in mind is the best revenge.it's all for myself to live better.
Fortunately, seven unaired episodes will give fans something to really dive into.
He had a thin face, a pasty complexion and a long thin nose.
I think what we really need is a bipartisanship approach to healthcare.
Oh, and most of the scathe in my post was fairly mild. chouinard and I tend to substitute perjoratives for ... everything, actually. Book Reviewer Backlash
You captain the dream team of smart thinkers that shine with self-confidence and boundless energy. The Sun
Moreover, see whether the term rendered fail to be the genus of anything at all; for then clearly it also fails to be the genus of the species mentioned. Topics
Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher
He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.
There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)
Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.
I think the argument of race as a cause of criminality like Walter brings up is somewhat off-point - The reason why those racial divides in criminality show up is mainly because those lines go together with education - or rather: the lack of good education. Can a Godless Society be a
`I'll persevere with anything that might rid me of this pestilence. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
The centre is ideally located within easy reach of many historical sites and venues for practical and outdoor activities.
Their support was greatly appreciated and all within the club are grateful for their help and co-operation.
You are a very scray person because you have shown that you will do, or say anything to get what YOU WANT. Supporter says Clinton getting desperate
Red Deer Catholic schools are publicly funded schools within the province of Alberta.
The soldiers were requisitioning things left and right, not good for an occupying army.
If you think you can work out a containment system where all the defense wonks have failed, have at it.
A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
Ideas for friends to run a restaurant seem like wishful thinking but they may just work. The Sun
"I'm going to hire some movers to pack everything up.
Or is the idea of foreign policy beyondmilitary commitmentsso far off the radar that when the polls open, everything will hinge on the pitch-and-toss of national concerns? And Now, The Choice « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
We'll fry anything - as long as it's fryable and edible, we'll make it deliciousable. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
(I think the Dalek is pretty cute though, I have to say.) 10: 37 AM While it's still Valentine's Day ...
Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against. The Times Literary Supplement
They will comment on everything you say and give you their opinion.
Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. Bill Clinton
At first, when their cops out there started telling me things, I didn't want to know. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle. Times, Sunday Times
Thanks to her doctor’s recommendations she finds herself feeling decafargic by noon. cardiacpopups – the messages that popup on your computer when you are in the middle of an important project and warn you that your computer is about to conk out. on 07 Sep 2007 at 5: 52 pm Kimberly defurrify – to remove pet hair/dander from a person or thing on 07 Sep 2007 at 6: 12 pm Heather Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
The art of writing a good chess program is thinking of efficient short cuts through the search-space.
Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA. Your Right Hand Thief
This is because people who suffer Panic Disorder, when they experience tetany for the first time, often think incorrectly that they are about to die.
The emphasis will continue to be on prod-ucts that gain the widest appeal and most acceptance within this group.
We've seen how things turned out for Scotland's national football manager; matters are organised no differently in the more modest context that is Scottish shinty.
The child was so thin that you could see her bones.
Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
I don't think you're playing devil's advocate (a word every/filmer seems to want use) simply by making entirely senseless comparisons between films like Transformers and There Will Be Blood, and ranting on with points of view that even someone in defense of Transformers would never use. Things I Noticed While Watching 20 Minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film
I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
The result was something of a culture clash. Times, Sunday Times
Finishing the mission so our troops will not have died in vain is the most screwed up thing I have ever heard. Think Progress » 9%.
I'd like to have something special planned that will keep them occupied and outside in the garden as much as possible. Times, Sunday Times
If the state thinks it is legitimate then it legitimates its own laws.
Nixon came up with the phrase 'growth recession': even when things are not falling, it's not going to feel good. So what do we do now, chancellor?
The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.
There was something captivating about this man, who dedicated much of his time to his artistic talents, his creative genius, and photographic exhibits.
Her own valuers had estimated that the property was worth £150,000 on the basis of agricultural use of the surrounding land, and virtually nothing on the basis of mining and/or landfill operations.
Actually, I was thinking of M&P on top of the CP, as a cover for the paper, but since the water in CP would make it wet to pour on top of the paper, dunno. Microsoft Soap - Set Up
The committee plan to go to Congress within the year to have the museum chartered.
As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
Air in free fall does not convect, which means that everything that heats up has to be cooled by fans; the space shuttle is LOUD inside. 8/4/08: Launch Pad, day 5
I don't think it would go down very well and would be seen as another arty-farty scheme.
One of these gentlemen just happens to be the madwoman's father, a charming chap who seems unfazed by most things in this day and age.
It is good to have regular practice at something - meditation, at the very least.
He handled it really well for a man who doesn't have children, is not used to having to think about money and employs a cleaner.
Now, I can't help but wonder if these people have a quick look-see, utter ‘boring’ and move on, or whether they're actually reading anything I bother to blather on about in here.
Unlike anything else in his catalog, Aura is a ten-part suite composed by Danish flugelhornist Palle Mikkelbourg as a tribute. Fulldls.com
These envision a range of possible outcomes within which the actual future is delimited.
But proposed regulations may force people to take stock of their daily energy consumption and could make us think twice about our festive decor. Times, Sunday Times
There is something about rainy days that can make you feel strangely melancholic and happy at the same time.
He may also wish to think about income protection and critical illness insurance. Times, Sunday Times
It has made it far harder for determined and powerful figures to control how people see events and that can only be a good thing.
Everything else is kind of lumped into the "overbooked" category that people say we see far too often in TNA. PWTorch.com
If you think of a piece of hair as a pencil, the medulla is the graphite, the cortex is the wood, and the paint on the outside is the cuticle. The Tenth Circle
The machine then applies a thin, even layer of cells to a microscope slide for examination.
Sometimes things happen that are just out of your control.
It has been reduced to something of a laughing stock. Times, Sunday Times
Within the context of modernity, the autonomous artist, as a creative being, explores varying moods, passion, sentiments and emotions.
A dried-out horseshoe crab is a delicate thing and there's no way it would survive the flight in my checked baggage. Horseshoe Crabs and the TSA
Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update
The same thing happened when I was at the animal hospital, too; two or three people got preggers there, sometime before I left.
We're negotiating and that was one of our negotiating points," he told the AP, "but collective bargaining is a negotiating process, and that was not something that Ted was authorized to say and he will be dealt with for that lapse in judgment. Ted Leonsis fined $100,000 for comments on NBA salary cap
Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
I think it frustrates adults when they cannot instill their ideas into teens.
Close to the mangroves a big hawksbill turtle surfaced then lay motionless in the sunshine, no doubt sunbathing.
But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
I disagreed with something…kind of bristled at how something was characterized and was piled on. Scott Brown Posed in Cosmo’s Center-Fold 28 Years Ago — And So What? - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
I felt something akin to the tender hatred one can sense when staring hard at a photograph of oneself.
She has the ambition and talent to make something of herself.
If there was one thing everyday Americans didn't want to hear, it was self-involved celebrities trashing the president.
We may still be able to save Las Vegas, as it is encysted by libertarian Nevada... but San Francisco, I fear, is already seething with the RED VIRUS, which has spread to it's outer "Bay Area" provinces, such as Mountain View and other Silicon Valley cities. Obama's Commie Mama
One thing's for sure: Rosen won't be trying to play the role of sole rainmaker.
I also had a tissue biopsy taken, but went home thinking it couldn't be too worrying. The Sun
They want something with character and a narrative behind it. Times, Sunday Times
Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.
Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn
Remember the whole sex-text thing he had going with an aide. CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2008
Panathinaikos-Rubin Kazan 2: 45 p.m. DirecTV (485) * Seven matches available live online at foxsoccer. tv Soccer on TV, Wednesday edition
Mustard, salt, picholine olives and super-thin rye toasts give the house-cured gravlax just the right accents. SFGate: Top News Stories
The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years. Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2.
Many primitive societies attach existential weight to the names of things.
I just think it really spreads the word for our designs.
The face muscles set differently when we think we are observed; it becomes habitual. Times, Sunday Times
Now the girl is also changing, consuming everything with such rapaciousness that it startles him. Until the Heart Stops Beating
Instead, they've argued, companies are more like biological organisms - living things that learn, evolve, and eventually die.
When Mary Ann wasn't home, he could almost always be found in his video aerie, lost in the soothing ether of the Quasar. BABYCAKES
Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
Today, you can not only take a virtual spin in an Express LT - you can also drive the real thing.
The new film just seems to be skirting round things; it hasn't been brave enough.
Your situation is not unlike the girl who permits everything but the textbook definition of sexual congress so she can say she's a virgin.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
Look out for things like white feathers and birds that appear to follow you around the garden. The Sun
Ruling was in a sense a job, a calling, the only thing he knew how to do and could conceive of doing.
The only thing I was thinking at the time was what a bloody bum deal I was getting.
When you think that we craftsmen who make all these things by hand, it follows that piece is different; these are all timeless pieces. Times, Sunday Times
These people write reasonable, well-balanced letters, disclaim any belief in racialism, and back up everything they say with copious instances. As I Please
`All right, I'll tell you some of it, but first, let's get my things put away, before the high priestess comes looking for me. WEB OF DREAMS
Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
I have caught plenty more on hook and line than they have noodling (they call it grappling around here), so I don't think it is something that we should be concerned with. What do you guys think about noodling? have you ever gone? or do you think its wrong?
WEIL: I think that the research being done on immunotherapy, gene therapy, antiangiogenesis therapy, I think all these things look more promising to me than our current approaches. CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2004
It nearly brought a tear to my eye when I saw thousands of screaming fans watching a bunch of (and I use the term affectionately) nerds out there doing their thing. Sun Bloggers
The Latin American brotherhood was a pretty awful in general, coming out of some deranged ideas of Simon Bolivar, and it was an extraordinarily awful thing during the Cold War. Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
No, it's like "And she knew it arbored great things. Glimpse Inside A Writer's Brain
Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
He looked like something from another planet!
Oxymorons are things like wedded bliss, gourmet tofu and, more recently, Microsoft Works. Think Progress » Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’
The two that are getting to me lately are "ironwood," which here in Hawai'i means a variety of Casuarina sp. native to Australia I think. Languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.
Do you think Hillary wants to sit by and watch McCain appoint Supreme Court Justices, block universal health care, send more money to Iraq in exchange for body bags? McCain raises $21.5 million in May
The sight of that red tab on the back pocket triggers something that is well worth triggering. Times, Sunday Times
We have introduced singers like Madeline Bell as headliners and I think the club is beginning to take off.
He will pull out something special today because this is a huge game and there is so much on the line here for the Wallabies. Times, Sunday Times
Hunt thinks it unlikely that the currency will break parity with the dollar next year, and feels it is likely to settle around the $0.92 level.
In front of Titian's Diana and Actaeon in 2008, he explained: "When something is really convincing, I don't think about how it was done, I think about the effect on me. Lucian Freud obituary
Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
Poverty is something that is contagious and infectious in our community.
They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
That man has such a nerve! He's always blaming me for things that are his fault.
Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
It was hard to believe that something so simple could be so tasty, a creamy potato flavour that was concentrated by long slow cooking in olive oil, seasoned with the sweet tang of long cooked onions all morticed with beaten eggs. At My Table
Besides when it gets to Tuesday, I think someone will cave and pay our price.
Thank you for making learning not a dull thing but a great joy.
Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin 'if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to' im on the foggiest nights. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes

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