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Definition of pencil-thin in English: pencil-thinadjective Extremely thin. delicate spears of pencil-thin asparagus Example sentencesExamples - A quick glance at the animal's lithe body and pencil-thin arms might suggest it's a rat or a squirrel.
- A shaky camera traces the movements of pencil-thin dark figures, themselves out-of-focus, against a blurry and snowy background.
- To focus more attention on your eyes, Espinet recommends using a pencil-thin brush to apply cream eye shadow in smoky grays or warm earth tones to the top and bottom lash lines.
- He gathers pencil-thin willow branches and snips them to 1-inch lengths.
- Only the occasional clump of purple heather broke the wall of wood formed by the pencil-thin pines and their bushy tops.
- Over two days the scientists bombarded the painting with a powerful pencil-thin beam of X-rays.
- To our left was a woman whose boots had crazy, scary, pencil-thin five-inch heels.
- We refilled the hole with the new soil, taking care not to bury the tomato's pencil-thin stem.
- She has this brown face with loads of yellow hair, a big, egg-shaped body, and pencil-thin legs.
- 'The difficulty is that the 20-inch, pencil-thin snake has sought out a secure hiding spot within the Reptile House,' the Bronx Zoo director said.
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