Sentence examples for thinly stretched from inspiring English sources

Parchment Made from thinly stretched skin of sheep or goats.

And a swath of homeowners was even more thinly stretched.

Despite increased defence spending and American military aid, Colombia's security forces remain thinly stretched.

Shorter hours and more thinly stretched staffs at child protective service agencies may make it harder to report cases.

His reflections on people and places seem, therefore, rather fleeting, while his travel narrative feels momentary and thinly stretched.

It could take weeks or months to collect them, if ever, the officials said, because the agency is too thinly stretched to make retrieval a high priority.

Prime Minister John Key said he was spreading his Marmite more thinly to stretch his meager and dwindling supply.

The third book is not a joke, either, but a pun stretched thinly over 55 pages.

"Our troops are stretched thinly all over the country," he said.

It's under-nuanced, over-predictable stuff stretched thinly across a good 50 minutes of the show.

Naval cover is stretched thinly over a vast tract of ocean, so delivering suspects to Kenya, say, would take a valuable warship off patrol.