Example Sentences

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“This can’t be happening,” I wail, my hands shaking as I feel the unprecedented thinness of my ponytail.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Despite its thinness, it is highly stable and conducts electricity extremely well.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2025

The body-positivity movement got a major boost in the early 2000s, when Unilever marketing executive Silvia Lagnado proposed a bold Dove campaign emphasizing self-acceptance rather than the usual aspirational quest for uniform thinness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The wide availability of weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic -- used to suppress appetite -- has also been linked to the return of thinness.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

But the thinness of the clay layer clearly suggested that in Umbria, if nowhere else, something rather more abrupt had happened.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson