A moon is "as slender as an eyelash".
She was as slender as a cypress tree.
Yet its fuselage is as slender as a glider's and its single-person cockpit is cramped.
Tamales can be as slender as a cigar, or as plump as a fist.
In some medieval paintings, sinners were shown as fat and Christ's disciples as slender.
The show that followed had an odd beauty as slender dresses were decorated with graphic protuberances of reptilian fangs.
For users whose fingers are not as slender as toothpicks, he warned, the screen could be particularly frustrating to manipulate.
He is also known as a calligrapher who excelled in an elegantly mannered style known as "slender gold".
In many respects, the play is as slender as the tale of three misfits rehearsing traditional jigs and airs suggests.
In Abdulaziz's images, there are fishermen and poachers, conservationists and polluters, huge transport ships and tiny sampans as slender and slight as river reeds.
The younger an ingredient, the more highly it was valued, thus the baby chicken, the baby spinach, the newborn asparagus, each pale stalk as slender as a fang.
