One jerk and it would cut the tissue-thin new skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fate of the Phoenix]

The reverend read some more from the tissue-thin pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Twisted Stories Vol II]

He had been here only a month, his skin was still tissue-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

The water had turned the tissue-thin dress into a second skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eye of the Beholder] Reference

Monsorlit paused to thumb through tissue-thin metal sheets in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Restoree]

A tissue-thin, open-collared suede shirt with khakis is tr è s St. Tropez.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wearing Suede in the Caribbean in Winter] Reference

I love the dry, musty smell of the volumes, the tissue-thin feel of the paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference

He gurgled and shook it, rattling the seeds inside against the tissue-thin wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Friends Like These...]

The light was hallucinatory; everything felt evanescent, transitory, tissue-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

Blue veins like ropes filled with sailors 'knots pushed the tissue-thin skin outwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Ninja]

Not the post-Katrina story, mind you; but TV news 'tissue-thin treatment of the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Deggans: Katrina's Challenge for TV News: Find a New Narrative] Reference

My trembling fingers opened the envelope and pulled out the tissue-thin letter within it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willow] Reference

Much mentioned but rarely discussed: the tissue-thin separation between existence and non.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead'] Reference

He turned the tissue-thin pages with his delicate fingers until he found the passage he wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

Then he turned the tissue-thin pages of the book to another section and looked up a new meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hearts] Reference

But the storyline is tissue-thin and Cloud prances around alot like a pretty boy (think: YamaP).    From Wordnik.com.  [whiteplum Diary Entry] Reference

He pulled the sword from its scabbard, that tissue-thin blade as stiff and heavy as a big hammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlash « A Fly in Amber] Reference

I'm good at crossing over the boundaries between people because my own boundaries are tissue-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closeness] Reference

Gemma could see that the paper was tissue-thin copy paper, and the typescript had the smudgy look of carbon ink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference

Stretch and pull the dough until it's about 1 feet wide and 1 1/2 feet long, it will be tissue-thin by this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

It was one of those Japanese fighting fish, a beta with a shredded tissue-thin tail that trailed like the gown of a movie star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Minutes]

The Archbishop, who was closer to it, picked it up and looked curiously at the brown, tissue-thin shape which had once been a rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorn Birds]

Apparently, for these followers, "less," when engulfed by a tissue-thin veneer of folksy, hockey mom hokiness, extends far beyond "hope.".    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain "Plays" the Base] Reference

"This case is pretty tissue-thin at first glance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com] Reference

The tissue-thin national economic recovery is being undermined.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

You're certainly welcome to read the rest of it, tissue-thin though it is, intellectually.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Democratic Daily] Reference

For all that layering, you need a tissue-thin long-sleeve T-shirts to go underneath it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheState.com: The Buzz] Reference

For all that layering, you need a tissue-thin, long-sleeve T-shirt to go underneath it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage] Reference

The game does have a story, a tissue-thin mystery, and the less said about that the better.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

— referring to the immaculate, tissue-thin sheets of shattered magenta crystalline candy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brisket and Cabbage Dumplings] Reference

Ringed by a veil-thin, tuile crown, the scrambled eggs were dotted with tissue-thin garlic chips.    From Wordnik.com.  [the ulterior epicure] Reference

I was already feeling rather cheated by DDJ given the magazine's ever dwindling tissue-thin thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

Don't press for longer than 10 days or you'll run the risk of them discoloring and becoming tissue-thin.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Referring to the immaculate, tissue-thin sheets of shattered magenta crystalline candy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Eating Out in New York] Reference