Sentence examples for paper-thin victory from inspiring English sources

Richard M. Nixon did not openly challenge John F. Kennedy's paper-thin victory in 1960 and was widely credited as a gracious loser, even though his allies filed lawsuits and demanded recounts.

Yet with a victory in the first round he can accurately claim a mandate from Russian voters, paper-thin though it might be, to carry out new policies.

Slice paper-thin.

Slice paper-thin, vertically.

Their skin was paper-thin.

But the conviction is paper-thin.

The social fabric has worn paper-thin.

Peel onion and slice paper-thin.

Slice paper-thin on a mandoline.

The substance of these messages was paper-thin.

A second entrenched hurdle is the paper-thin economy.