thinness

Example Sentences

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However, their extreme thinness also creates a challenge.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

“This can’t be happening,” I wail, my hands shaking as I feel the unprecedented thinness of my ponytail.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

It’s a big update, particularly in thickness…make that thinness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

After a short interlude of pushing "body inclusivity" and plus-sized models to the fore, the fashion industry has returned to promoting thinness as a beauty ideal.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

But the thinness of the clay layer clearly suggested that in Umbria, if nowhere else, something rather more abrupt had happened.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson