Sentence examples for had been thin from inspiring English sources

Years ago his mother had been thin, a vivid girl whose husband had treated her rough.

But at a tasting two weeks before, the pasta itself had been thin.

She had been thin just once, for a couple of shining years beginning in 1983, when she managed to diet down to 126 pounds.

"Certainly with international organisations pulling out, some of the most exposed populations are not being reached and supported," Christian Jacob Hansen, head of the DRC's Middle East and North Africa unit said, noting that even before the latest escalation in violence, humanitarian structures had been thin on the ground with support weighted towards development initiatives instead.

Women were asked to state whether they had been thin, average or plump at age 10 years, their weight at age 20 years and their weight and height at diagnosis (or equivalent).

Just as Mr. Trump had been thin-skinned in employing a spokesman to exaggerate the size of his inaugural crowd, this person said, Mr. Colbert was mocking himself by using Mr. Spicer to overstate the size of his viewership.

The Bulls' roster had been thinned by injury and illness.

Layoffs in traditionally unionised heavy industries had been thinning labour's ranks for decades.

While she canvassed for ripirg in college, her uterine walls had been thinning.

I visited one stand that had been thinned many years earlier as a demonstration of how thinning protects trees from bark beetles and enhances growth.

Six plots had been thinned and pruned, while two plots had received no silvicultural treatments (Table 1).