- superlative of thin.
thinnest
Example Sentences
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And the U.S. is meeting this challenge with the thinnest oil-reserve cushion in a generation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But I also looked in at myself as a mother through the leaded-glass pane of our very lovely living-room windows, and I saw a washed-out woman worn down to the thinnest thread.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
A 120,000-year-old deer skeleton, also discovered in Germany, shows a spear wound where the pelvic bone was thinnest, suggesting that the hunter knew exactly where to aim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
“Imperial Valley growers provide the nation with a safe, reliable food supply on the thinnest of margins for many growers,” she said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025
Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
