Sentence examples for but very thin from inspiring English sources

He was tall but very thin and had a slight stoop.

In the third, a variation on the dreaded can't-get-a-grip theme, she finds herself trying to grasp a distorted racquet straight out of "The Twilight Zone": it's shaped like a bionic tuning fork, very long but very thin, so there is no way for her to wrap her fingers around it.

Pretty simple, old but very thin.

Unit 2 is thick in one core but very thin or absent in the other cores.

Whereas only a dense but very thin protective oxide layer was observed in case of (Ti,Cr,Al,Si N coating after the oxidation.

The permeability characteristics of this vast, but very thin, endothelial membrane essentially rest on the architectural characteristics of the individual endothelial cells, their links to each other, and their adhesion to the acellular basement membrane.

Blobs or runs mean too much paint or painting too slowly; subtle ridges should smooth themselves out under gravity (self-level) but very-thin spots mean too little paint or too much pressure.

Ms. Kidman did look luminously beautiful as ever, but very, very thin.

When a customer commented at macys.com that "the basket is beautifully woven, but very very thin and almost flimsy," Mr. Ericson sought a redesign.

But in very thin air, the fans must work harder because the thinner air is less effective at carrying away heat, and there is less air resistance, so the fan spins faster than it was designed to.

The remaining ten patients had no radiological signs of renewed increase of the residual defect after incomplete repair, but a very thin cuff.