wafer-thin
Example Sentences
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The Heisman Trophy winner and former No. 1 overall pick has spent his adult life in that wafer-thin line at the top, the lofty latitude occupied by the best players in the game.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
"She's sleeping on a wafer-thin mattress," he said of his mother, "that causes a lot of upset".
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025
The Fra’ Mani is larger in circumference and sliced wafer-thin.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
I was straddling a wafer-thin allegorical fence: The young man my parents wanted me to be versus who I was becoming.
From Salon • May 12, 2024
He flipped the top on a wafer-thin laptop.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
