Crossword clues for wafer-thin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wafer-thin
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ wafer-thin slices of cucumber
▪ Profits on each individual computer are wafer-thin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was a wafer-thin majority for a Prime Minister who had invested everything in its outcome.
▪ No Government could continue on so wafer-thin a majority.
▪ Wings, made of plates of wafer-thin metal, sprouted from a large dome on each android's back.
Wiktionary
wafer-thin
a. 1 Very thin, as thin as a wafer. 2 A very small difference.
WordNet
wafer-thin
adj. very thin; "wafer-thin sheets of metal"
adv. very thin; "it was cut wafer-thin"
Usage examples of "wafer-thin".
The doctor, plying her with wafer-thin cucumber sandwiches, little iced cakes and tiny meringues, looked at her with approval.
Self-confidence was a wafer-thin, puncturable envelope around him, threatened by his surroundings.
The clothes he was given consisted of a worn, loose grey tunic and trousers, an old pair of sandals with wafer-thin soles and a straw hat.
A stampede begins as my treads tear gouges out of the pavement and reduce livestock transports, combines, groundcars, and produce trucks to wafer-thin sheets of metal fused to the street surface.