Having little substance or significance

Usage examples of thinner.

The thin story he had told the assignor was now thinner, to the point of being full of holes.

The thick cord of an antiquated electric bowl fire shared a power-point with the thinner cord of a photoflood lamp and reflector on a tall metal stand.

Protogenes, returning, saw the line and knew who his visitor must be, but took up his brush and painted a thinner line down the middle of the first, Apelles returned with Protogenes once more away and divided that line in turn by a line so thin that it brought the contest to an immediate end.

The thinner Prowler, who had looked like a celebrity in his human face, lunged at Jack and batted the gun out of his hand.

At any rate, it was likely the thinner elastic materials of her underwear would have thwarted the experimental resewing process.

The Derna is a swifter, thinner river than the Scaum, its bosomy sister to the south.

He was grayer than he had been eighteen years earlier, and a little thinner, but still big and shambolic with the same warm, welcoming, and patient expression on his long face and an identical pair of half-glasses tucked into his breast pocket.

She was taller and thinner than Kate, and had at times a certain shy, coy sinuosity of movement which gave her a more virginal suggestion than her unmarried sister.

The police unbraided the graph paper, along with strips of another kind of paper, thinner and brittle, that had no lines.

In the center of the villus is another vessel, with thinner and more transparent walls, which is the commencement of a lacteal.

We assembled in the anteroom, clinging to walls, avoiding the center of the room for some reason, and we told each other how good the dead man looked, as if he were not dead at all but only waxed and welldressed as part of some process of rejuvenation and would soon be buzzed awake, thinner than ever and quite refreshed.

The ashfall grew even thinner, and the sky overhead turned a hazy, yellowish blue.

Behind the desk was a meter-high rack of thinner bluesteel tubing, shaped somewhat like the kind of kickable step stool to be found in libraries.

In Barrow, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission spent a large part of its annual convention last year discussing, among other things, the perils of hunting bowhead whales from increasingly thinner ice.

We must have had some such normal notions to fall back upon as our eyes swept that limitless, tempest-scarred plateau and grasped the almost endless labyrinth of colossal, regular, and geometrically eurythmic stone masses which reared their crumbled and pitted crests above a glacial sheet not more than forty or fifty feet deep at its thickest, and in places obviously thinner.