Sentence examples for customary thin from inspiring English sources

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His posture was erect and motionless and he wore his customary thin white socks, a small man with dark coiled hair.

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The Queen adopted the tradition and by mid-century a light meal consisting of scones, biscuits and thin sandwiches had become customary in all fashionable households as the "afternoon tea".

As is also customary, details of Magic in the Moonlight are thin on the ground, though it has finished shooting in the south of France and is currently in postproduction.

Trials were disappointing, it was not possible to get the bomb to adhere to any surface that was wet or covered with even the thinnest film of dried mud "a customary condition of tanks" as Major-General Ismay, on 27 June, could not resist pointing out.

GENZLINGER +*"S SHAustin Pendletondleton's play, about a 1960 production of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tender-hearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side effects when sensitivity meets success.

(Margo Jefferson) 'ORSON'S SHAustin Pendletondleton's play, about a 1960 production of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros," which was directed by Orson Welles and starred Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tenderhearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side effects when sensitivity meets success (2 00).

ISHERWOOD +* 'ORSON'S SHAustin Pendletondleton's play, about a 1960 production of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tender-hearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side-effects when sensitivity meets success.

(Isherwood) * 'ORSON'S SHAustin Pendletondleton's play, about a 1960 production of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tender-hearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side effects when sensitivity meets success (2 00).

(Genzlinger) * 'ORSON'S SHAustin Pendletondleton's play, about a 1960 production of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros," which was directed by Orson Welles and starred Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tenderhearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side effects when sensitivity meets success (2 00).

(Genzlinger) * 'ORSON'S SHAustin Pendletondleton's play, about a 1960 production of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tender-hearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side effects when sensitivity meets success (2 00).

(Isherwood) * 'ORSON'S SHAustin Pendletondleton's play, about a 1960 production of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tenderhearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side-effects when sensitivity meets success (2 00).

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