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The phrase "into a thin line" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the way a person or object is shrinking or becoming smaller. For example: "The crowd of protesters thinned out into a thin line as they walked away from the stadium."
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The wrong viewing angle will turn a knife into a thin line.
Kipkemboi kept pace, but the exertion drew his lips into a thin line.
The source laser pulses of ~5 ns duration were focused into a thin line by a cylindrical lens onto the sample surface, as shown on the right of Fig. 1.
The collimated output of a 4 W supercontinuum laser (SC400-4, Fianium Ltd., Southampton, UK) is dispersed using a prism (SF-11 glass) and focused into a thin line to couple it into the 127 fibers of the array end of a custom-made line-to-spot converter (FiberTech Optica, Inc., Canada).
When people exhibit anxiety, they display increased blinking and facial movements, and their mouth stretches into a thin line.
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The crowds surged into the avenue, and a thin line of police officers, clearly panicked, retreated toward the church, where reinforcements were posted on a side street, Veronica Place.
Of course Peek is likely working more features into its device, but there's a thin line already between a Peek and a full-fledge smartphone.
He imagined them secured to a thin line and then hooked into his face, right beneath his eyes and at the corners of his mouth.
It's a thin line.
A thin line of light.
They are walking a thin line".
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