thin
Having little thickness or extent.
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,102 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 16,678 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- Having little thickness or extent.
thin in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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His lips were stretched in that thin, straight smile.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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The thin and creaking steps seemed to him extremely unsafe.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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She was there, then, close to him, only a thin board between.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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She wore an extremely smart travelling-dress and a wonderful dust-cloak of cool, pale, thin silk.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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One foot was wet to the ankle, and a thin strip of green seaweed had wound itself around his trousers.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1