Diets not only fail to make us thinner, they also fail to make us healthier in the long term.
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By comparison, Let Me Be Frank With You—as one meaning of the title suggests—is direct and thinner.
Richard Ford’s Artful Survivalist Guide: The Return of Frank Bascombe|Tom LeClair|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like thinner and translucent for summer and warmer for winter.
Tatiana Sorokko Is the Queen of Vintage Couture|Anthony Haden-Guest|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And in expected Apple fashion, the phones are thinner and faster than ever before.
Bigger, Bolder, and Better Than Ever: Steve Jobs Would Be Proud of Today's Apple|Kyle Chayka|September 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like many young girls, Flores used to idealize a thinner body.
Penthouse Forum’s Kelly Shibari and the Rise of Plus-Size Porn Stars|Aurora Snow|May 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They had drifted from the outskirts of the crowded table and found themselves in the thinner crowd of saunterers.
Septimus|William J. Locke
And as the water weeds he ate did not agree with him, he got thinner and thinner, and at last he died.
The sop for Children|sop
With two holes for blowing and for modulating the sound, perforated towards the thinner end.
Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2)|Carl Engel
And the child was the same, with a fever that consumed his little body, which grew thinner and thinner.
The Cabin|Vicente Blasco Ibez
The fog was getting thicker instead of thinner and it was impossible to see anything like a sign post.
The Campfire Girls Go Motoring|Hildegard G. Frey
British Dictionary definitions for thinner
thinner
/ (ˈθɪnə) /
noun
(often plural, functioning as singular)a solvent, such as turpentine, added to paint or varnish to dilute it, reduce its opacity or viscosity, or increase its penetration into the ground