Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "paper-thin".
Just as he remembered it, he counted ten cards and that bonus of a paper-thin stick of hard, pink bubblegum that came in each package.
It seemed to be a lensless system depending on folded optics and a paper-thin electronics sandwich of an image plane that transmitted the pictures on its face through a pea-size FM device.
Elisa and Filippo, brought us plates of tripe and fresh porcini and a tiny green the size of clover, all hidden under paper-thin slices of white truffle.
Their most striking feature is a pair of crests, made of a paper-thin bone, along the preorbital portion of the skull roof in some species, or hornlike processes on nasal bones and above the eyes in others.
The siblings, pickled in hatred, shuffle out onto the English-style lawn, where they deliberately trample several costly blossoms and grasses and leaves underfoot, beneath soles paper-thin, because the shape of fashionable winklepickers would be spoilt by re-soling.
They had tea out, at a dear little teashop, all chintz and flowered china, a fitting background for the paper-thin sandwiches and cakes oozing cream.
Especially when times are hard, we become desperate for encouragement, unreceptive to the litany of great demotions and dashed hopes, and much more willing to hear that we're special, never mind if the evidence is paper-thin.
Already a ballet skirt of translucent, paper-thin, red-spotted flesh dangled from her hips.
The house salad, served after the entre, was a botanical cross section of Bibb lettuce surrounded by precise mounds of shredded radish, paper-thin carrot, and cubed tofu, drizzled with gingered rice wine vinaigrette dressing and finished with a veil of alfalfa sprouts and a sliver of Brie.
He could see the paper-thin section of brain sealed with a cover slip.
Braised abalone with green sprouts, chicken livers and sliced partridge sauce, shark's fin soup, barbecued chicken, Chinese greens and peapods and broccoli and fifty other vegetables with crab meat, the skin of roast Peking duck with plum sauce and sliced spring onions and paper-thin pancakes, double-boiled mushrooms and fish maw, smoked pomfret fish with salad, rice Yangchow style, home sweet home noodles then happiness dessert, sweetened lotus seeds and lily in rice gruel.
Braised abalone with green sprouts, chicken livers and sliced partridge sauce, shark's fin soup, barbecued chicken, Chinese greens and peapods and broccoli and fifty other vegetables with crab meat, the skin of roast Peking duck with plum sauce and sliced spring onions and paper-thin pancakes, double-boiled mushrooms and fish maw, smoked pomfret fish with salad, rice Yangchow style, home sweet home noodles-then happiness dessert, sweetened lotus seeds and lily in rice gruel.
She poured the orange pekoe tea, brought the paper-thin Royal Doulton cup to him and sat beside him on the sofa.
As Andre went back to cutting paper-thin slices of salami and provolone cheese for the salad, he could not shake the terrible feeling that the evening was fated to be a disaster.
Her favourite tea-service, the delicate Royal Worcester, was already laid on the drum table with a plate of her favourite sandwiches - paper-thin slices of cucumber from which the water had been drained - as well as home-made cake and biscuits.