Sentence examples for thin affair from inspiring English sources

Jones says that he "used to love the smell when Momma was frying it" and that it was usually served with "apostolic" gravy, a thin affair made by deglazing the pan grease with water.

Rose looks to the skies Updated at 12.48am BST 12.36am BST Mickelson smiles wanly, a thin-lipped affair.

The Observer described it as "a thin, arch, graceless affair".

With two wars, the military is already stretched too thin, a state of affairs reflected in Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's reservations about the Libya action.

There is not much time left ("super Tuesday", with many states simultaneously in play, is on 1 March) for them to emerge as the mainstream alternative to the Cruz-Trump show before the contest eventually thins into a more conventional affair.

Stephen La Rivière, writer of Filmed in Supermarionation: A History of the Future, states that it is "remembered with dread", adding that the "wafer-thin plot" is a "tedious affair" before proceeding to criticise the editing for leaving a finished version that is "more than a little rough around the edges".

A later event of this sort is contrasted with a state of affairs (e.g.victim's thin skull) existing at the time of the alleged cause.

This state of affairs has two constituents, a "thin" particular and a universal, bound together by instantiation.

The book published by OR books and available here—starts with Critchley's first encounter with the Thin White Duke and charts the lifelong love affair that followed.

The book – published by OR books and available here – starts with Critchley's first encounter of the Thin White Duke and charts the lifelong love affair that followed.

He is also "a happy warrior"—a man who relishes the pig-wrestling side of politics, and can deliver a killer punch without seeming malicious.This is a perfect compliment to Mr Obama's biggest weaknesses, his wafer-thin résumé on foreign affairs.