How to Use paper-thin in a Sentence

paper-thin

adjective
  • He’s got a paper-thin mustache and a shrub of chin hair to match.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
  • The paper-thin potato skin needs a bit of structural help from the flesh.
    — Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This is a slightly bigger option from the brand, and it's made from paper-thin nylon stuffed with scrap yarn.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • This is a slightly bigger option from the brand, and it's made from paper-thin nylon stuffed with scrap yarn.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In this case, a paper-thin layer of this material is placed on the top surface of the floating foam under the dome.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Lily wore paper-thin sheer gloves that reached past her elbows, as well as sheer black tights underneath her dress.
    — Seventeen, 25 May 2023
  • The devices can read signals emitted by paper-thin RFID tags attached to the price tags on clothes and can track the location of shoppers in the store.
    — Liz Young, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Crape myrtles, sycamores, paper birches and a few other species just happen to do it in large sheets of paper-thin bark.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
  • The cortador places the leg in a special holder and uses a long knife (the cuchillo jamonero) to create paper-thin slices.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
  • For such projects, Van den Heever added to her knife set the kind of skinny, snaky blade used in Spain for carving paper-thin slices off a classic jamón ibérico.
    — Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Adding to the problem: Airline seats are almost paper-thin, which means the passenger in front of you feels every single tap.
    — Christopher Elliott | On Travel, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
  • Adding to the problem: Airline seats are almost paper-thin, which means the passenger in front of you feels every single tap.
    — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
  • My dad’s dosas were perfection—paper-thin, lacey, crispy, filling.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 1 Mar. 2025
  • My dad’s dosas were perfection—paper-thin, lacey, crispy, filling.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 1 Mar. 2025
  • After the dumplings are placed into bamboo baskets and steamed, the broth melts, forming a rich, fatty soup within a pliant, paper-thin wheat skin.
    — Tiffany May, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This white long-sleeve top may be simple, but it’s guaranteed to become your new favorite base since it’s made from a soft and stretchy cotton blend that’s gentle against the skin and not paper-thin.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The crabs — almost always domestic blue crabs — molt their hard outer shells in the spring, leaving them with paper-thin exoskeletons.
    — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • When Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia in 2000, his legitimacy was paper-thin.
    — Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
  • And yet, for all the witty, effervescent charm of the game itself, Astro Bot is a paper-thin protagonist even by the standard’s of the mascot platformer.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And, of course, the burek: the restaurant’s signature is squeeze-your-shoulder comfort with a crust that crackles into a flurry of buttery, paper-thin phyllo.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • But her character's scenes were paper-thin compared to this season's other, meatier arcs.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • However, it's crafted of lightweight, paper-thin nylon filled with pillowy down that could serve you on the mountain, finished with a high neck and snap closures to conceal the front zipper.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The paper-thin plot is just enough to keep this episode plodding from scene to scene, and despite being based around a hostage situation, the stakes never feel particularly high.
    — WIRED, 21 June 2023
  • Monét wore a head-to-toe Y2K fashion throwback consisting of a pleated and frayed denim mini skirt in an acid-wash, a paper-thin sleeveless tee and pointed-toe stiletto boots.
    — Marissa Muller, WWD, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In the absence of novelty, the franchise’s flaws — schlocky dialogue, uninspired CGI, paper-thin baddies — are glaring.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Their chances were already paper-thin coming into Wednesday.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But of course that would be impossible because, in the manner of goods for the stealth-wealth set, the clothes were made of whisper-light woolens, finespun cotton, materials like doeskin or paper-thin suede.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Neus Coronado, one of three full-time slicers García employs, can produce a tidy pinwheel of uniform, nearly paper-thin slices in just a few minutes.
    — Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The siblings cared for one another, sure, but their rivalry ran deep — and as the final plot twist proved, their mutual protection pact was always paper-thin.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 29 May 2023
  • Given the paper-thin margin, most private companies won’t bid to operate a DOE science lab, Madia notes.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Oct. 2024

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