Sentence examples for a thin edge of from inspiring English sources
Out of town The Dalmatian coastline is spectacular: a thin edge of pine trees is all that lies between the sea and the limestone-bleached mountains.
Discovering that her young ward Vera Emma Maguiree) has also fallen for him, Yanowsky displays a thin edge of anger which, like the yearning breadth of her arms and the sad inclination of her neck, hints at chasms of unhappiness.
That was not so much through her mother's physical presence as through the wealth of diaries she found in a storage bin, with decades of entries stumbling back and forth along a thin edge of reason: "I see that little bits of my life in distorted form have gotten into movie stories.
England Under-19 seamer Olly Stone, who had given Northants hope with four wickets on the third day, followed when he was caught behind from a thin edge of Kabir, who ended the game in his next over by sending Muhammad Azharullah's off stump cartwheeling out of the ground.
And it helps prevent splitting if you have to drive a screw into a thin edge of lumber.
Khawaja got a thin edge off the underside of his bat to give Matt Prior his 200th Test catch and a frustrated Clarke and perished to a wild swipe that flew high to Cook at first slip.
Wedge, in mechanics, device that tapers to a thin edge, usually made of metal or wood, and used for splitting, lifting, or tightening, as to secure a hammer head onto its handle.
In "Mischief" (1993), the Deaf Man tried to set off a race riot in a city "on the thin edge of explosion".
The settler movement as a whole sees disengagement as the thin edge of a wedge that will eventually lever Israel out of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem as well.
They fear that withdrawals of NATO countries on a date certain from Afghanistan is only the thin edge of a wedge that will be followed by other coalition partners, including the United States.
Is it the thin edge of a large privatisation wedge or a removal of over-prescriptive central government regulation?
