Sentence examples for be thin as a from inspiring English sources

Used to be thin as a rake.

Albert Viscio, of Booz Allen & Hamilton, a consultancy, and joint author of a book called "The Centerless Corporation", thinks the ideal head office should be "thin as a dime".

I'd argue that it's too simplistic to say that we aspire to be thin as a direct result of what we see in the media, but research shows that 42.4 per cent and 30 per cent of women would like their bodies to look like the models who appear in magazines.

She is thin as a rail and she's hot.

"He was thin as a match and still yellow from malaria.

In contrast, the extremities, such as the arms and legs, are thin as a result of loss of muscle mass.

Her arms and legs are thin as a child's, and she can get around only in a wheelchair.

From the front, the long black head is thin as a knife, the sides flattened, throwing all the emphasis on the profile.

His next patient says she was thin as a teenager, but started eating more in her late 20s because of an unhappy relationship with the father of her children.

Oddly, though, he was thin as a rail.

"They pass the buck so much, by the time it gets back to me it's thin as a dime".