thinness
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
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
Despite its thinness, it is highly stable and conducts electricity extremely well.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025
It’s about eating more and in a culture that’s long moralized thinness and praised restriction, that’s its own kind of rebellion.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025
Touch was the thing, lightness in the finger, the sparing use of water, never spit, the thinness of the rag, and a stingy use of polish.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
