Sentence examples for on a thin line from inspiring English sources

In Blacktail Canyon (river mile 120), for example, one can put one's hand on a thin line separating two rock units--the lower, the Vishnu Schist, dated at 1750 million years of age (Ma), the higher, the Tapeats Sandstone, dated at 525 Ma.

"But we are all on a thin line now between nonviolence and fighting.

"So I'm trying to find a balance, somewhere on a thin line".

When someone dies, we exist for years on a thin line, a wire, stretched tight between remembering and forgetting.

The $9 million, four-hour production - to be shown on CBS Sunday and Monday at 9 P.M. in two two-hour segments - is balanced by the director Anthony Page on a thin line between being outlandish and being obscene.

'... NEXT STOP IS VIETNAM: THE WAR ON RECORD: 1961-2008' By the time you get to Huey Lewis and the News' "Walking on a Thin Line," on the 10th disc of this astonishing anthology, you need a little bit of Mr. Lewis's optimistic rasp, even though he's singing from a post-traumatic-stress perspective: "Taught me how to shoot to kill/A specialist with a deadly skill".

He said his department was working "on such a thin line there is nothing left to cut".

Harrison collaborated with Tom Scott on Scott's album New York Connection (1976), and in 1981 he played guitar on "Walk a Thin Line", from Mick Fleetwood's The Visitor.

If you're trying to be more like the tv show, just put on pale makeup, do a thin line of eye liner on on the upper and bottom lashes.

In round six, the referee called a halt just seconds after an accidental clash of heads, and as Khan walked away dabbing with his glove at what he thought was a cut on his brow, a thin line of blood slipped down the left side of McCloskey's nose.

Few missionaries could count on unlimited support from a thin line of diplomats and merchants also working far from home.