How can a paper-thin cable support so much weight?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Up?] Reference

Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reach for the Skies. for the 101th time] Reference

One of the sweets is a chocolate wafer, paper-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haute Cuisine Heats Up] Reference

His skin was paper-thin and white from lack of sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sequel to ‘The Departed’] Reference

Breathing through my paper-thin walls at night. previous - next.    From Wordnik.com.  [martinaa Diary Entry] Reference

Crosse was examining the paper-thin porcelain cup against the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

And she's probably paper-thin to the left of the "Independence Party".    From Wordnik.com.  [New Bachmann Ad: "I May Not Always Get My Words Right"] Reference

Buy a paper-thin second hand leather jacket and cover it in pyramid studs.    From Wordnik.com.  [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference

They walked through it, suffering no blindness, as this illusion was paper-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xone of Contention]

The plot is paper-thin and there is little conflict or suspense to push it forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springtime for Muammar] Reference

The Ayers thing is so paper-thin, I don't know how they ever thought it would get traction.    From Wordnik.com.  [TPM Track Composite: Obama Ahead By Nearly Eight Points] Reference

All I could see were the repetitions, the unvarying sentences and the paper-thin characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Jane Yolen] Reference

As sad as it is, the story is pretty hard to resist, even if the details are still paper-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?] Reference

To be honest, I'm not sure why we Americans seem to need to have our paper-thin justifications.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

He did not know me well enough, but Holmes could have told him he was walking on paper-thin ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter of Mary]

He lifted his spoon carefully from the paper-thin cup and laid it on the small saucer to his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typhoon Season]

African Americans were a big component of his winning margin in NC and paper-thin loss in Indiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommitted Super-Del: How Could I Tell My Black Constituents I'm Backing Hillary?] Reference

But the rally died in April when investors began to see how paper-thin these profits actually were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Reich: Forget a Double-Dip, We're Still in One Long Big Dipper] Reference

But when those TARP funds were used to keep the corporation afloat, it's a paper-thin wall at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Basically, America Spent All That TARP Money On Lobbyists] Reference

“If you do not appear by dawn, I shall storm the city of women,” he declared, but the jest was paper-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]

This is one of the few occasions when Shoes escapes the limitations of its paper-thin concept, and takes flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shoes; Dangerous Liaisons] Reference

It came apart easily, a shell of paper-thin but remarkably strong metal, protecting the tightly packed contents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

She coated the kitchen table with flour and, using a bleached broomstick, rolled out paper-thin sheets of dough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Tongue must be treated the same way, else boiled very, very tender, skinned before slicing, and sliced paper-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference

All she could do was cry and cry and let her tears fall on the spotted, paper-thin skin of Mullah Faizullah's hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

But one day, yes, one day, they would be fertilized and my soggy, paper-thin, coasting-along existence would come to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Getting of Ignorance] Reference

Instead, they seemed to be delicate, paper-thin flowers that were drooping, dying, and rotting all in a matter of seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

Democratic challenger Jim Webb holds a paper-thin lead -- he is on the right of your screen -- over incumbent George Allen.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2006] Reference

From the western wall, orange light burst through the drawn blinds on the small paneled window in paper-thin lines of color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spear Master] Reference

But I was told that in this country somewhere are Giants with sweet, hard kernels which fill up their paper-thin shell fully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference

The place settings were luminous and paper-thin, the silver old and heavy, the glasses blown into an ornate and modern twist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]

I was waving my hand this way and that, because in front of me floated a small bird with horns and colorful paper-thin wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joy Luck Club]

The company is operating on paper-thin margins, last year producing £2. 5m of profits on turnover of £500m from its 300 shops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borders sees sharp fall in revenue] Reference

And Ted Wells said absolutely not, that Libby is not guilty, that this is a paper-thin, circumstantial case of he said/she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2007] Reference

Knee-length and paper-thin, they were nonetheless unpenetrable even if the boys should step on one of the needle-sharp ground thorns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolt on Venus] Reference

They range from thumbnail size to several feet long, from paper-thin to plump, from striped to polka-dotted or decked out in every hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Oil Rig's Second, Scuba-Diving Life] Reference