The thin-walled container broke, releasing a cloud of vapor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

This is the phloëm and it consists of sieve tubes and thin-walled cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Parenchyma cells are thin-walled plant cells that perform many functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

Just above the xylem there is a group of large and small thin-walled cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

One problem everyone faced was cooking chili in a nation of thin-walled pots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

Welding solid bars requires less skill than welding thin-walled tubes or angle bars.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 STEEL TRUSSES] Reference

A thin-walled sac containing amniotic fluie that surrounds the fetus during pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary] Reference

It was not a modern fortress like Fort Zeelandia but rather a small, thin-walled fort.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

What is especially to be taken care of when thin-walled and unstable workpieces are clamped?.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Preparing face and parallel milling] Reference

In the muscles the thin-walled blood-vessels are surrounded and bathed by a liquid called lymph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference

Motor cells large thin-walled cells occurring in the epidermis of the leaves of some grasses, 35.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Who would be vaccuuming in a no doubt thin-walled apartment building, eightish on a holiday morning?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-05-01] Reference

Whole families were found frozen to death in their thin-walled cabins; those in dugouts fared better.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference

The seeds are enclosed in a thin-walled, brown to black fibrous hulls that are removed at a groat mill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

They have to worry about their legs buckling, because their legs are essentially just thin-walled tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-12] Reference

The stem is mainly composed of large, thin-walled cells, becoming smaller as they approach the epidermis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The former shows on cross-section a thin-walled central tissue surrounded by a zone of thick-walled cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The ground tissue of the leaf is composed of very loose, thin-walled cells, containing numerous chloroplasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The rest of the tissue of the stem and leaves consists of thin-walled parenchymatous cells of different sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

They are usually oval in form, rather thin-walled, but the outer surface sometimes provided with little points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

Within these are several rows of thin-walled ground-tissue cells containing numerous small, round chloroplasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

They consist of slender, thin-walled tubes, which resemble veins in structure, and, like the veins, have valves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

Once in the lungs, the air is drawn into an enormous number of thin-walled sacs richly supplied with capillaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [respiratory system] Reference

His head felt like it was made of glass, too heavy and too thin-walled to handle the weight of so much information.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Minutes]

The spaces between the bundles are occupied by thin-walled parenchymatous cells containing small chlorophyll grains.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

When chucking thin-walled parts, the chucking pressure must be selected so as to avoid any deformation of the part.    From Wordnik.com.  [8. Cylindrical turning and facing of hollow cylindrical parts] Reference

The cup reminded Whandall of the thin-walled cups the Lords used, and like the Lords 'cups it had figures painted on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

He turned over one of the smaller skulls, pointing out the swelling bulges on the underside, like small, thin-walled balloons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

At his touch, a concealed wall alcove disgorged a thin-walled metal container containing a mix of both liquid and frozen water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diuturnity's Dawn]

They were so thin-walled and so close together that you could — and did — hear a baby being spanked in the fifth cottage off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

The authors postulate that the volume overload put greater stresses on the thin-walled right ventricle and might be causing ARVD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

And watch out for PVC "knock-offs": thin-walled plastic tubing that will not last as long and doesn't have much structural strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Many thanks to Bertil and MK, however, more questions] Reference

Above the alimentary canal, extending almost the whole length of the abdomen and thorax, is a thin-walled pulsating vessel, the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference