Sentence examples for thinner than paper from inspiring English sources

"But the Army is stretched thinner than paper". Skelton said Americans soured on the draft during the Vietnam War era because many felt that the system of exemptions -- claimed mainly by wealthier and better-educated people -- "was downright unfair in many instances...

"All I can say is, fake democracy is thinner than paper," he said.

The danger with this approach is that CD-Rs are more fragile than commercial CD-ROMs: many have thinner-than-paper labels that are easily damaged, especially by little hands.

Displax, a company who produces interactive technology, has created something called Skin — a flexible, thinner-than-paper transparent polymer film that can be laid over any non-conductive surface to create a multi-touch interactive screen…which makes those office whiteboards with illegible scribblings look so 20th century.

Poor Donald is apt in so many ways, from his thinner-than-rice-paper skin, to his actual bank account, to the way he is in completely over his head.

A striking property of the SOEs or SWPs, which have feature size smaller than the wavelength of light, is that it makes an optical system thinner than a paper.

Thinner paper and paper made specifically for origami work best.

Less than an inch thick when closed, the new Toshiba Portégé R100 computer is thinner than many paper-based notebooks.

The wall of a bubble can be 1,000 times thinner than a piece of paper.

Senior researcher Yao-Wen Yeh helped prepare the samples, some of which were sliced to less than 100 nanometers thick (a thousand times thinner than a sheet of paper).

Dr. Sparks also found a way to make the middle layer of the semiconductor sandwich thinner than a sheet of paper, which prevented the current from becoming unfocused.