Examples of wafer-thin in a Sentence
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All the lore about cults and fog worlds is a tangled web of nonsense, the characters are wafer-thin, and the whole thing is really way too long for how little plot is in it.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
McCown, who played as a wafer-thin true freshman at CU in ’22, threw for 30 touchdowns at UTSA this past fall — including three in a 57-20 win over Florida International in the First Responder Bowl.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026
The outcome of the special election could have key implications for control of the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a wafer-thin majority, currently 219-213.
—Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
The wafer-thin coating of clay remained long after the underlying tissues decayed completely, retaining their detailed morphology and forming a perfect clay mask.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
And as a corollary to the latter, anything that governments provide in the form of spending or easier credit comes via a substitution of wafer-thin government knowledge for the immense knowledge that is the marketplace itself.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Raised in Aspen and trained at Nobu, he’s known for his wafer-thin tuna pizza topped with truffle oil.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
Unfortunately, these strengths are working in service of a story too flimsy to support them, an unsatisfying combination of threadbare tropes, predictable twists and a wafer-thin character study.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Kogod’s defining feature is its roof, a wavelike structure that seems to flutter like a curtain of glass over the tree boxes and a wafer-thin reflecting pool created by Kathryn Gustafson.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
McCown, who played as a wafer-thin true freshman at CU in ’22, threw for 30 touchdowns at UTSA this past fall — including three in a 57-20 win over Florida International in the First Responder Bowl.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026
The outcome of the special election could have key implications for control of the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a wafer-thin majority, currently 219-213.
—Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
The wafer-thin coating of clay remained long after the underlying tissues decayed completely, retaining their detailed morphology and forming a perfect clay mask.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
And as a corollary to the latter, anything that governments provide in the form of spending or easier credit comes via a substitution of wafer-thin government knowledge for the immense knowledge that is the marketplace itself.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Raised in Aspen and trained at Nobu, he’s known for his wafer-thin tuna pizza topped with truffle oil.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
Unfortunately, these strengths are working in service of a story too flimsy to support them, an unsatisfying combination of threadbare tropes, predictable twists and a wafer-thin character study.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Kogod’s defining feature is its roof, a wavelike structure that seems to flutter like a curtain of glass over the tree boxes and a wafer-thin reflecting pool created by Kathryn Gustafson.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Wafer-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wafer-thin. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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