Thesaurus / thin-skinned

thin-skinned

How to use thin-skinned in a sentence

This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.

The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.

Her thin and narrow hands held the balcony railing rather tightly.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

She saw in the chair a thin, broken figure, a drawn brown face, a wreck of a man.

His smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.

DOPESAX ROHMER

The land is generally good, though there are considerable tracts of hard, thin soil.

The nuts are cut into thin slices and wrapped in the leaves of a singular plant called buyo.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.

Thin, with mighty shoulders and an exceptionally deep chest, it was obvious that his strength must be enormous.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

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OCTOBER 26, 1985