Thinner

Examples

• It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You find it difficult enough yourself, and she is several skins thinner than you are. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was thinner, her eyes were perhaps hotter, more disintegrated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They are usually wrapped in straw, you know, and are thinner for their length than any other brand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I lingered thus for about two months, without any visible change in my health or spirits, except that I grew weaker and thinner every day. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The diaphragms used in the recorders and reproducers are made of French rolled plate glass, thinner than a sheet of ordinary writing paper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Her boots being thinner than those of the young men, the hoar had damped her feet and made them cold. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Thinner and less immediately traceable than the other two, it was far more impressive than either. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Perhaps he was a little thinner. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was dressed in a dark frock-coat, of some substance much thinner than cloth, and in waistcoat and trousers of spotless white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Is he not paler and thinner? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He was rather thinner than when we last saw him, but had gained in majesty and solemnity of demeanour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Editor: Marilyn