The metal was deeply notched but for a hair-thin edge at both breaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Queen]

As always, individual performances and hair-thin margins played a role.    From Wordnik.com.  [America’s Golden Games] Reference

All were tightly sealed, showing not even hair-thin marks of an opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero Stone]

Audition a huge syringe, hair-thin needles and rusty piano wire=masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [22 Must Watch Halloween Movies - Pink Raygun.com] Reference

"Tomorrow, then," she said into the hair-thin microphone of her mini-headset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

So the hair-thin strand of glass fibre can handle five million simultaneous calls.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the Things You Want to Know about the Communications Revolution] Reference

Here are some other long and grueling sporting events that were won by hair-thin margins.    From Wordnik.com.  [When 21 Days Come Down to a Few Seconds] Reference

His own Empathy told him Tashir was dancing on a hair-thin thread of nerve at the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Promise]

At the top of the plate were numerous black, red and orange cubes from which hair-thin wires came.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circus World]

He scraped at something and backed out, with a miniature microphone and hair-thin wires in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Side Of Nowhere]

The wizard contemplated him, hair-thin lines of impatience and power deepening at the sides of his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harpist in the Wind]

The hair-thin cable emitted its own light and would give him a view inside the cavity of the cornerstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantis Prophecy] Reference

Michael examined the door, running his hands up and down the steel frame, tracing the hair-thin door seam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference

James Webb, with a hair-thin lead, has claimed victory and announced that he will set up a transition team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia Senate Update - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

It could also accommodate hair-thin incisions and even cross-hatching, which caused endless problems in wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printmaking - From Revolution To Establishment] Reference

A hair-thin crackle of reddish energy arced between the weapons and his extended foreclaw, confirming his fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Gryphon]

The chip contains literally hair-thin channels to carry water, which is moved by electrohydrodynamic principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Processor With Built-in Cooling Pump | Blog | Futurismic] Reference

He or she spends hours each day carving the two hair-thin reeds that are essential to the sound of the instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference

For the fine adjustment, three hair-thin beams of light reached from the arm support to the surface of the Zero Module.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

“Oh,” she sighed, pegged down on a chair arm, like a captive balloon, by a myriad of hair-thin ties into domesticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Acts] Reference

The rest of her figure was lost in the elaborate folds of her golden garment, a loose clerical robe woven of hair-thin gold wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riverwind the Plainsman]

Flinx had a glimpse of a hair-thin wire attached to a needle the size of a nail paring protruding from Habib's back, near the spine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of The Matter]

The novel processor is a microfluidic chip containing a network of hair-thin plumbing pipes with nanofliters of fluid pumped through them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Ushering me into her treatment stall, she stuck hair-thin acupuncture needles into me, saying something about “balancing my energies.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Shift] Reference

Acupuncture needles are metallic, solid, and hair-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

It's not like sticking a nail inside you; it's like a hair-thin needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [LSU Tigers Central] Reference

First they need to study if the hair-thin electrodes can be kept in longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Meanwhile, NBC's Brian Williams held a hair-thin margin over a Peter Jennings-less ABC.    From Wordnik.com.  [From On High] Reference

A slice of steak pounded hair-thin and therefore way overcooked and at least slightly tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [SaltShaker] Reference

The rasp-like tool shaves away the zest in hair-thin strips, leaving the bitter pith behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference

The sheets combine layers of hair-thin semiconductors with nonsilicon materials to generate power.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The sheets combine layers of hair-thin semiconductors with non-silicon materials to generate power.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The hair-thin line of light widened to a narrow ribbon which described an eight-thousand-mile half-circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space Tug] Reference

Acupuncture is the use of tiny, hair-thin needles which are gently inserted along various parts of the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

The hair-thin needles used in acupuncture are inserted into pressure points (acupoints) throughout the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top Life & Style Headlines] Reference

He explained that sclerotherapy is the most efficient treatment because large areas of the veins can be treated with hair-thin needles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference