Sentence examples for thin rather than from inspiring English sources

Female consumers of all sizes, according to a recent study, seem to prefer looking at ads with thin rather than plus-size models.

The zabaglione with sake was frothy and thin rather than creamy; the centers of the macaroons were chewy rather than soft.

Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, called it for a Wednesday in October at a cost of $24 million to a state with a budget stretched thin, rather than holding it three weeks later, when he would have appeared on the ballot for re-election with Mr. Booker, the one Democrat he had feared running against him.

The sense among the veterans last season was that the Giants' defensive packages became so extensive that practice time was spread thin; rather than concentrate on a basic set of coverages that would be used during most of the game, the Giants practiced numerous coverages and made mistakes.

The charity also claims British women are held back by a culture that urges them to be thin rather than healthy.

Surprisingly enough, the maximum SERS enhancement is observed with thin rather than thick substrates (cf. spectra 1 and 2 in Figure 6).

In other words, the lespedezas should be thinned rather than trimmed.

This member of LiS has never been on Mr Tang's boat (white doesn't suit the semitic complexion), but I did meet him four years ago at a debate at Cambridge Union in which his observations, such as, "I rather like the fact that beautiful women are thinner, rather than fat", went down surprisingly badly with the students.

"They would get slightly almost insane when they talked about it, and say things like, 'I love them more than my wife.' " Nowhere in the commercial does anyone eat the product, or say it is toothsome, but Brett Edgar, a group account director at Being, said the commercial aimed to depict an emotional connection to Wheat Thins rather than sell them overtly.

When bowel wall thinning rather than thickening occurs, transmural small-bowel infarction has probably already ensued.

The company's teaser video for the new flagship (below) focuses entirely on the design and its fashionable metal bling and slender profile (6.7mm at its thinnest), rather than flagging up particular software features.