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Example sentences for "thin line"

  • He snapped his lips together in a thin line, his eyes narrowed, and his face went gray.

  • Toward mid-morning they saw a thin line of smoke arising in the far north, answered by still another on the hills beyond, but to these signs they gave no heed.

  • Stern shot a thin line over to them by means of a bow and arrow.

  • His face like stone, his lips a thin line now, Jimmie Dale's hand reached deftly in without disturbing the child and took out a package--and then another.

  • Jimmie Dale's lips set in a thin line, as he started abruptly toward the door.

  • His lips were like a thin line, his fingers tightly pressed over the automatic in his hand.

  • A black speck on the blue horizon; a thin line of slowly drifting smoke!

  • The Malay next Rupert dropped his paddle, which floated away, and when he looked at him he saw a thin line of blood running down his face from a hole in his left temple.

  • His mouth looked merely a thin line, his jaws protruded.

  • At first, it opened out to a thin line of troopers scattered over the arc of an immense circle; then it drew in until an army stood in fighting array straight across the veldt from Heilbron to Kroonstad.

  • Far to the northward, a thin line of poplars and willows marked the bed of a river.

  • Mr. Treffry's head drooped forward; across his face, gloomy and rugged, fell a thin line of sunlight.

  • It moved on with the bier, that travelling groan, as a fire moves on over grass in a thin line; it kept step, and marched alongside down the dense crowds mile after mile.

  • As the last of the "thin line" came into their hands there came with it the first of a stouter hawser, the two lines being knotted securely together.

  • Tom, throughout the excitement, held the "thin line" in one hand.

  • These areas may or may not be connected by a thin line of white color along the midline of the underparts.

  • The white color of the underparts is restricted to a thin line on the abdominal region, but widens out posteriorly in the inguinal region and anteriorly over the pectoral region, throat, chin and lower lips.

  • The usual arrangement is one where the brown of the two sides nearly meets on the midventral line leaving a sizable, inguinal area of light color connected by a thin line to the sizable area of light color on the pectoral region.

  • And it was there, at the farther end of the slashing, that, while she listened, the teacher saw a thin line of smoke.

  • His lips set in a thin line; his face became a mask through which his eyes only flamed heat.

  • When he turned from the log his lips set in a thin line; his eyes narrowed; his face hinted of cruelty.

  • He closed his lips into a thin line, shot out his jaw and lowered his brows unpleasantly.

  • McGuire had risen unsteadily and was peering out into the darkness through the window opposite him, his face pallid, his lips drawn into a thin line.

  • She allowed no item of her duty to escape her, and moved about the house as usual, sternly observant of her daily task, but her lips were compressed to a thin line, and her face reflected the anger that burnt in her heart, too deep for speech.

  • A thin line of white appeared between her lips, and, under their drooped lids, her eyes shone with a moist brilliance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thin line" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    last came; pressure cylinder; thin brass; thin crust; thin layers; thin muslin; thin plate; thine anointed; thine hand; thine heart; thing about; thing before; things according; things are; things around; things hoped; things will; things would; think much; think them; think they; think thou; think upon; thinking only; what thou; will amount