In print, the space used as a thousands separator (commonly called a thin space) is typically narrower than that used between words.
Runners, many wrapped in the thin space blankets provided by Boston Marathon officials at the finish line of a race that had ended with two explosions, stood shaking from some combination of runners' fatigue and shock at what they had heard or seen, or at the bits of news that were passing through the crowd.
Her final act that morning might have scaled a new peak of obsessive absurdity: she moved from one unoccupied cubicle to the next, smoothed the sheets down, and then, crouching awkwardly in the thin space between the head of the bed and the wall, oiled the knobs for the wall-mounted valves that brought oxygen into the room.
Whether preaching a sermon, walking through the neighborhood to build community, or playing dodge ball with middle schoolers, I have learned to live with my gifts in the thin space between Heaven and Earth, serving God and God's people.
It shows the objects in a thin swath of space extending outward from the Earth's Equator as they appeared on Aug. 12, 2003, among them some 14,000 asteroids and 126,594 galaxies.
Similarly, the high value of ε" reflects the presence of dipoles with "relative high density" in very thin spacing.
This paper investigates the cracking process in a thin film with etched spaces and stiff phases.
Compared with wild-type Salmonella, the mutant strain had a different pole structure and a thin periplasmic space; OmpA was not seen in the mutant.
Sandwiched between these two layers is a thin periplasmic space.
Add in a thin, tufted tail.
