Sentence examples for thin crop from inspiring English sources

Apart from that it is a thin crop.

In an otherwise thin crop of free agents, relievers, particularly left-handed ones, stick out.

The Mets have evaluated the market of potential replacements for him at third base, and it is a thin crop.

If Webber returns to the Kings, several hopeful N.B.A. teams will most likely have to settle for a very thin crop of talent -- or keep their money for the following season.

Not that this sort of rectitude isn't a virtue, but I wonder whether the total pursuit of such virtue doesn't winnow to a thin crop the eligible participants in public life.

A thin crop caused by a cool spring has kept down the number of pickers, but even so many are living in awful conditions, without electricity, running water, toilets or even ways of keeping their modest property safe during the day.

The Gessmann brothers tall, thin, cropped hair and beards, wire glasses (they're identical twins)—are forty-three.

The Gessmann brothers — tall, thin, cropped hair and beards, wire glasses (they're identical twins) — are forty-three.

Commercial growers use it to thin crops of plums and peaches (so the remaining fruits grow bigger) and to loosen berries in preparation for mechanical harvesting.

"I was among the first to thin crops in 1973, but I had no idea of the lengths it would come to," he said.

Only his hair is much different: thinned, cropped short and streaked with gray.