Read full poem →And the men are none too many for the work there is to do;
Where the standing line wears thinner and the dropping dead lie thick;
And the enemies of England they shall see me and be sick."
Dictionary Entry
Less thick or wide.
In a Sentence
“The new phone is much thinner than the old one.”
Origin
From Old English "thynne" meaning "thin, rare, sparse".
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “thinner”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Of Samarcand is brought this way,
Wastes and runs thinner every day.
Read full poem →yll, then be angry with me for saying truth. The ribbe in
a styffe fether may be thinner, for so it wyll stande cleaner
on : but in a weake fether you must leave a thicker ribbe, or
Read full poem →vowel; as, hot, hotter; thin, thinner; refer, referred; occur,
occurring.
Read full poem →Thus they, till each past player
Stroked thinner and more thin,
And the morning sky grew grayer