"thin like" can be used in written English.
It is typically used to compare one thing to another. For example, "Her smooth biscuits were as thin like paper."
Noodles made from wheat flour, called ba mee, are always quite thin, like angel hair, and sometimes made with eggs; they are often salted and sold fresh.
His response echoed one of my favorite quotes from The Lord of the Rings, where Bilbo Baggins describes himself as feeling " thin, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread".
Non-formulaic lyrics comprised very unlikely, but syntactically correct phrases, as they may occur in modern poetry ('Bright forest, there at the boat, thin like oak…').
French bacon is cut too thin, like tissue paper".
Pens thicken and thin like ties, Ms. Agniel said.
You slice apples really thin, like paper, and you just smear the almond butter on.
"Anytime they're thinner, I like," he said.
The fruit body (mushroom) begins developing in a thin, egg-like sac.
Seated figurines have thin rope-like limbs while the standing figurines have short stocky limbs.
This included shrinkage of the cell body with long, thin, neurite-like cellular extensions.
Microscopy analysis showed thin fibre-like growth features with accompanying deposits of salt crystals.
