Sentence examples for may be thicker from inspiring English sources

Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is thicker still.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it's thinner, perhaps, than my grandfather's wine.

Given that the 78th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, broadcast from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles (Sunday at 8 p.m., Eastern time, on ABC) will not pivot around a tent-pole favorite like "Titanic" or "Lord of the Rings," the suspense and intrigue may be thicker than usual around the water cooler when it's time to mark the ballots.

Among the tools Shell said it was using were five ships with dispersants, infrared equipment to locate areas in the slick where the sheen may be thicker and mapping of sensitive ecological areas on land and sea so booms could be placed strategically.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it clearly doesn't dictate that two siblings must like each other.

The membrane is formed by two layers of integument closely apposed, while the veins are formed where the two layers remain separate and the lower cuticle may be thicker and more heavily sclerotized.

The cylindrical body may be thick and short or long and slender.

The cork cambium primarily produces a single cell type, the cork cells; however, the walls may be thick or thin.

Is he a boxer or something?" She may be thick, but she ain't stupid: within weeks she was looking at flats in Primrose Hill and thinking of investing in "a nice little Bimmer", although she couldn't actually drive.

The mayo I whisk up today, dripping the oil oh-so-slowly from its bottle, beating it into the yolks with a wide balloon like whisk, may be thick and glossy, almost green.

Eyelashes, eyebrows, and the hairs inside the external ears and nostrils have obviously useful functions, and scalp hair may be thick enough to provide some protection from the midday Sun.