Sentence examples for thin space from inspiring English sources
noun
A metal block used to separate words, one fifth of an em in width.
Between the two layers is a thin space called mesenchyme or mesohyl.
The thin space between the two layers connects with the lumen of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and the outer layer is an extension of the outer face of the RER.
Five stools are lined up along a faux-wood counter, and above it a thin space opens like a proscenium onto a small kitchen, crusted black with age and smoke but hardly dirty.
Marten has divided it, and created a long, thin space at the entrance, where a number of white, welded and bolted steel objects that look like work stations, each cluttered with small objects, are arranged.
Runners, many wrapped in the thin space blankets provided by Boston Marathon officials at the finish line of a race that had ended with two explosions, stood shaking from some combination of runners' fatigue and shock at what they had heard or seen, or at the bits of news that were passing through the crowd.
Her final act that morning might have scaled a new peak of obsessive absurdity: she moved from one unoccupied cubicle to the next, smoothed the sheets down, and then, crouching awkwardly in the thin space between the head of the bed and the wall, oiled the knobs for the wall-mounted valves that brought oxygen into the room.
Her teeth had thin spaces between them, which made her look frightening, predatory, like an animal.
Lower right shows the fixed specimen stained with H&E; the thin spaces between collagen layers (arrows) reflect normally fluid-filled spaces that are almost completely collapsed.
Similarly, the high value of ε" reflects the presence of dipoles with "relative high density" in very thin spacing.
The rail-thin space, which carries only a few articles of precious clothing hanging behind thick-glass displays, was opened by the 33-year-old founder of a tech company as a sort of luxe closet for his closest friends.
What's striking here, though, is the paper-thin space between the ribald problem drinkers we all know and love, and the habitual alcoholics we'd be embarrassed to be seen at a bar with.
