Black, possibly an Arab from North Africa, covered by a thin layer of dust.
Each droplet has an oil core surrounded by a thin layer of butylcyanoacrylate.
This in turn is covered by a thin layer of skin.
The wide, spacious sidewalks of the Left Bank and the long pedestrian mall running down the central axis were covered by a thin layer of ice, which, in turn, was covered by a thin layer of snow.
The outside of the body is covered by a thin layer of ectodermal cells, which also line the pharynx.
Shelves of such origin tend to be steep, deformed, and covered by a thin layer of erosional debris.
(The effect is similar to the creation of colours by a thin layer of oil on a puddle).
The inner surface of every blood vessel is lined by a thin layer of cells known as the endothelium.
Healthy lungs are protected from infection by a thin layer of mucus that the body dilutes and flushes out.
In "Mother's Milk," Patrick's weary wife (the mother of two small children) gets into bed and is "covered by a thin layer of broken rest".
Eventually, we will hit the Canadian Shield" — a vast stretch of Precambrian rock covered by a thin layer of soil — "and that will be the end".
