How To Use Wafer-thin In A Sentence
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The ruling two-party coalition has a mandate until 2012, but its wafer-thin parliamentary majority is crumbling. Few believe it can stumble on much longer.
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Other marketplace standards that made the ‘Workspheres’ cut include bewitching Apple computer products, such as a translucent, sculpturesque G4 Cube computer and a highly desirable, wafer-thin, oversized monitor.
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An elegant and space-saving mini hi-fi system no longer consigns you to wafer-thin sounds.
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There is some opposition to him in the Senate where the Democrats have a wafer-thin majority.
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Our profit margin is already wafer-thin.
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Morgan makes his dough from scratch; a 19-inch pizza spreads two pounds of dough into a wafer-thin layer.
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If, however, your definition of ‘thriller’ is wafer-thin plots and clichéd style, then Responsibility probably isn't for you.
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Enjoy the luxurious, wafer-thin wings with fine water-dumple caviar.
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The high-tech visuals do not go well with the wafer-thin theme.
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it was cut wafer-thin
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The wafer-thin morality of our Government and its supporters has been exposed by the actions of US / UK armed forces.
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Voluntary schemes urging firms, intent on maintaining wafer-thin cost advantages in the Pearl River Delta, to invest in costly green technologies haven't proven popular so far.
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‘This decision will only erode the public's already wafer-thin trust in the justice system,’ he told The Jakarta Post.
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It's not easy when you have a wafer-thin squad like ours, but the players are capable of doing much better than they showed against Burnley on Wednesday night.
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Wafer-thin and boxily geometric, his drinking glasses have a 1960s modernist look.
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Even in the unlikely event of a wafer-thin majority in favour of the constitution, the terms on which the whole European project moves forward will have changed.
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Its famous Palace of the Winds is actually just a wafer-thin facade designed to enable the court's women to observe processions in style, without compromising their purdah.
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The coconut-mousse bombe: Silly name aside, it is, in fact, the bomb -- a cloud-like concoction of coconut essence around a sphere of semi-sweet chocolate, plated atop wafer-thin pineapple slices, nuzzled against a grown up version of gulab jamun -- a doughnut-like pillow of a cake, sans the sweet sauce.
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The MP will have his work cut out to hold his Shipley seat where he defends a wafer-thin majority of just over 1,400.
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For the birdlike Oates - she is wafer-thin, with frizzy dark hair and huge amber-coloured eyes - is a literary heavyweight.
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By this method, the Chinese cooked fragile pancakes of millet or wheat flour, which they filled with wafer-thin vegetables and meat slices.
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The Dos Equis also features a soft nylon midsole - for additional forefoot support when you're perched on a wafer-thin edge.
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For Mozambique, a country with a wafer-thin economy, the disaster is doubly cruel.
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My starter of ‘wafer-thin slices of Tombuie-smoked venison, complemented with a delicious fruit chutney made with Miller's gin, served on a croute of crisp golden toast ’, had one of the menu's terser descriptions.
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Business is brisk and many buyers say that they enjoy watching the vendors deftly dropping wafer-thin banana slices into the boiling oil.
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Use a zester or potato peeler to remove the wafer-thin zest from the lemon.
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In these days of corporate austerity, economic gloom and wafer-thin margins, it is brave to post substantially increased profits and claim there is still more to come.
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It was wonderful, with the piping-hot, wafer-thin rice flour skin giving way to a beautiful mouthful of chicken and vegetables, all complemented by the chilli sauce.
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Voluntary schemes urging firms, intent on maintaining wafer-thin cost advantages in the Pearl River Delta, to invest in costly green technologies haven't proven popular so far.
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They still look potent in attack but wafer-thin in midfield and wobbly in defence under pressure.
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Under his skilled fingers, the wafer-thin shavings fluttered to the ground like curly cream snowflakes as the wood took shape.
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Seared tuna was cut wafer-thin and plated in an odd checkerboard pattern with diaphanous slivers of half-ripe mango.
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According to the engineers who worked on it, the road was resurfaced with wafer-thin asphalt.
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I finger-tipped the last crumbs of my wafer-thin slice of cake and put the plate down, ruefully, looking with some envy at Graham finishing the last of a huge man-sized chunk.
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Seared tuna was cut wafer-thin and plated in an odd checkerboard pattern with diaphanous slivers of half-ripe mango.
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Lunch is five types of plump mozzarella balls, wafer-thin parma ham and spaghetti vongole.
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The Conservative majority was trimmed to a wafer-thin level with many members absent from last night's meeting and three Tories breaking ranks with the party line.
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The ruling two-party coalition has a mandate until 2012, but its wafer-thin parliamentary majority is crumbling. Few believe it can stumble on much longer.
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They remain the only county with a mathematical chance, albeit wafer-thin, of overhauling the leaders.
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There is an outside chance that, by Friday, we could be looking at a Conservative government - albeit with a wafer-thin majority.
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The fight is over a seemingly innocuous, wafer-thin device called a CableCard that unscrambles digital video images.
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The Minstermen have often found themselves wheeling and dealing on a wafer-thin budget, while dangling dangerously close to expulsion from the Football League.
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The point is, a wafer-thin line divides near-mishaps like the one at Kalpakkam and catastrophic health hazards faced by local populations.
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wafer-thin sheets of metal
