Giuliana has the thinnest body, but she eats, she really eats, so what the hell are you going to yell at her about?
People with eating disorders can become competitive and perfectionistic, striving to be the “thinnest” in any group of sufferers.
It was the thinnest of clues, based on hourly signals showing that the 777 was still “alive.”
Romney is just barely hanging on by the thinnest thread that exists.
Democrats have succeeded in fighting off passage of the law by the thinnest of margins.
It was thick and soft with sheet after sheet of thinnest paper.
Looking down I saw beside me the thinnest kitten I ever beheld.
It is, however, composed of the thinnest vapours imaginable.
It spreads over the surface in the thinnest film that can be imagined.
Nearly all were half-clad, or wearing only the thinnest of garments.
Old English þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from Proto-Germanic *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. West Frisian ten, Middle Low German dunne, Dutch dun, Old High German dunni, German dünn, Old Norse þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of root *ten- "stretch" (cf. Latin tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).
These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre. [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]Thin-skinned is attested from 1590s; the figurative sense of "touchy" is from 1670s.
Old English þynnian "to make thin" (cf. German dünnen, Dutch dunnen), from thin (adj.). Intransitive sense of "to become less numerous" is attested from 1743; that of "to become thinner" is recorded from 1804. Related: Thinned; thinning.
