Sentence examples for a rather thin from inspiring English sources

Sadly, Roosevelt left behind a rather thin paper trail.

He was wearing a rather thin camouflage-print windbreaker over his sweatshirt.

It was accompanied by a shrug of a side-salad and a rather thin, unpleasant coleslaw.

Well, perhaps; meanwhile there was a rather thin attendance in stalls and boxes last night, but the lovers of true art in the gallery applauded to the echo".

If the set of Wisconsin polls shows a clearer shift toward Mr. Obama, however, as in Pennsylvania and Michigan, Mr. Romney will be working from a rather thin electoral map.

An almost religious meditation on the persistence of guilt and memory, and the desire for forgiveness, the drama uses a rather thin plot to tread across established O'Neill themes.

Although possessing a rather thin-toned tenor voice, Astaire received much praise from jazz critics for his innate sense of swing and his conversational way with a song.

The game's second "proper" boss encounter pitches the trio against a couple of cactus-like Pokeys, one a tower of spiked spheres and the other a rather thinner, but no less pointy, version.

He faced a big (though not quite full) crowd, armed with only a pretty good voice and a handful of rather thin, slow jams.

"Lowell Lake was a tall man, rather thin, with thin sandy hair and a distant, preoccupied, though amiable disposition," the novel begins, a description that applied to the author as well.

Lyric fiction has become, inevitably, a style, a manner, and the pitfalls of its mannerisms became clear with the publication of Ondaatje's "Divisadero" in 2007, a book whose rather thin narrative thread all but disappeared in a fog of self-conscious artistry.