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Example sentences for "thin strip"

  • Sometimes a thin layer of tomato is used, but often just a border of some material of contrasting color, such as the yolk of egg forced through a ricer, finely chopped parsley, a thin strip of pimiento, etc.

  • Remove the paper from the bottom of the cake, and cut off a thin strip as far as the crust extends in on the sides and ends of the cake.

  • Cut a thin strip of the pimiento, and place this across the tips in the center.

  • Cut a thin strip from an ordinary cork and make a hole in the center to carry a short piece of wick.

  • A narrow, thin strip, C, is fastened to the bottom of the tank to keep the plates slightly raised, at the same time allowing a clearer flow of the water from the bottom upwards to the discharge.

  • D is a thin strip of walnut or other dense, hard wood fitted to the binding posts of the brush holders, to receive the screw in the center.

  • Defn: A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

  • A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

  • A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched.

  • The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc.

  • A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

  • Next, with a thin strip or batten, mark the line for the sheer of the deck by the saw-kerfs already made and remove the wood carefully to this sheer line.

  • If you cannot draw a good curve free-hand, take a spline or thin strip of wood, bend it on the side of the board towards one end till you get a good curve, hold it in position, and using it as a ruler mark the line with a pencil.

  • Nail these to a thin strip of board (from the under side) and fasten the whole in position (Fig.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thin strip" 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:
    closely veiled; quite plain; relative clause; thin layers; thin lines; thin membrane; thin muslin; thin plates; thin strip; thin wood; thine enemy; thine eyes; thine hand; thine own; things above; things stood; things went; think well; think what; think will; thinking about; thinking being; thinking only; thinking that; thinks himself; thinly sliced