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Example sentences for "thinnest"

Lexicographically close words:
thinly; thinne; thinned; thinner; thinness; thinning; thinnings; thinnish; thins; thiocyanate
  1. There is a braggart soldier, of whom he speaks-- There is some vinegar and a wine-cooler, Thinner than thinnest gauze.

  2. The white is the thinnest in its nature, diuretic, and warm; and being a promoter of digestion it causes a heat in the head; for it is a wine which has a tendency to move upwards.

  3. And the thinnest of these are the royal ones, and they are digestible and light, and moreover nutritious.

  4. Over the gasket is laid a sheet of the thinnest grade of what is called pure rubber or elastic gum.

  5. On most of them, at the thinnest part of the edge, a peculiar kind of fracture was obvious, and this seemed to be the work of an animal.

  6. The hermit-crabs, which are altogether aquatic, are by no means so careful to choose the lightest and thinnest shells, as the land troops.

  7. This nut has the thinnest shell of any variety known; it derives its name of Mesange from a little lark of that name, that goes to the kernel through the tender shell.

  8. To prepare this, a portion of the thinnest varnish is heated in a pan till it burns.

  9. The outlines of the drawing must be drawn on the finest and thinnest paper that can be obtained.

  10. The peritoneal vessels are fuller and the membrane redder than in health, and its surface covered with the thinnest possible film of lymphy exudation, and some serum in the deeper parts of the cavity.

  11. Its thickness also varies: sometimes it does not exceed that of the thinnest film, and at others it is a quarter of an inch or more.

  12. This noble volume is in small quarto, written on 533 leaves of the thinnest and finest vellum: indeed its extraordinary delicacy has caused the writing at the back of every page to be rather too visible on the other side.

  13. This book is written on the thinnest vellum (see pp.

  14. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

  15. Broadly speaking, when there are a great many very thin sections, the thinnest thread may be used; and coarser thread may be used when the sections are thicker, or fewer in number.

  16. As the sections are cut they may be allowed to drop into a shallow vessel of water; and, the thinnest then selected for examination in water as previously described.

  17. Allow the sections to fall into a vessel of water as they are cut, and then select the thinnest for examination, mounting them in a drop of water in the usual way.

  18. Flint is a form of quartz, dull-lustered, usually gray or blackish in color, and opaque except on thinnest edges, where it is translucent.

  19. It is in fine material, such as clays and shales and limestones, that the thinnest and most uniform layers, as well as those of widest extent, occur.

  20. The swelled and softened grain is then rubbed to a pulp between two stones, the moistened pulp is patted between the hands to the thinnest sort of a wafer, and these thin wafers are laid upon the top of the clay oven to be slowly dried.

  21. Passing westward through Louisiana and Texas, the mild air was delightful and I was comfortable in my thinnest summer garments.

  22. By half past eight I retained only my thinnest underwear, my pajama coat, my linen trousers and slippers.

  23. The slender, bronze-like arms are often completely hidden from wrist to elbow by a long spirally-twisted brass wire, looking like a succession of the thinnest bangles quite close together.

  24. But this Nous, or Mind, is not incorporeal; it is the thinnest of all things; its action on the particle is conceived materially.

  25. At the place of contact of Newton's glasses, or at the thinnest part of a soap-film just before it bursts, the colour is black and not white as the explanation seems to require.

  26. They are the thinnest and will cool the quickest.

  27. With the hand hammer, hammer until the thinnest part in the centre measures about 3/4 in.

  28. Soames, who had no more real affection for her than she had for him, suffered from a kind of English grievance in that she had never dropped even the thinnest veil of sentiment over their partnership.

  29. The other day, I observed an elegantly dressed little child paddling along on the wet, muddy sidewalk, with the thinnest of blue paper shoes.

  30. And in the 17th Observation the Reflexion of the Water-bubble where it became thinnest was almost insensible, so as to cause very black Spots to appear on the top of the Bubble, by the want of reflected Light.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinnest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.