How to Use paper-thin in a Sentence

paper-thin

adjective

• He’s got a paper-thin mustache and a shrub of chin hair to match.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
• The paper-thin potato skin needs a bit of structural help from the flesh.
  — Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2025
• This is a slightly bigger option from the brand, and it's made from paper-thin nylon stuffed with scrap yarn.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
• This is a slightly bigger option from the brand, and it's made from paper-thin nylon stuffed with scrap yarn.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• So, Namco filled out the roster with the likes of Astaroth, who wields a screen-filling axe, and Raphael, who opts for a paper-thin rapier.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 18 June 2025
• They’re tossed with crisp disks of spicy radish, paper-thin slices of cucumber and the sweet and crunchy inner hearts of romaine lettuce.
  — Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 4 June 2025
• In this case, a paper-thin layer of this material is placed on the top surface of the floating foam under the dome.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
• Lily wore paper-thin sheer gloves that reached past her elbows, as well as sheer black tights underneath her dress.
  — Seventeen, 25 May 2023
• The devices can read signals emitted by paper-thin RFID tags attached to the price tags on clothes and can track the location of shoppers in the store.
  — Liz Young, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
• Crape myrtles, sycamores, paper birches and a few other species just happen to do it in large sheets of paper-thin bark.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
• The cortador places the leg in a special holder and uses a long knife (the cuchillo jamonero) to create paper-thin slices.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
• Peel off the paper-thin skin and take a bite, and the flesh is an even more mysterious combination of flavors: tangy, tart, sweet.
  — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025
• For such projects, Van den Heever added to her knife set the kind of skinny, snaky blade used in Spain for carving paper-thin slices off a classic jamón ibérico.
  — Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
• Adding to the problem: Airline seats are almost paper-thin, which means the passenger in front of you feels every single tap.
  — Christopher Elliott | On Travel, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Adding to the problem: Airline seats are almost paper-thin, which means the passenger in front of you feels every single tap.
  — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
• My dad’s dosas were perfection—paper-thin, lacey, crispy, filling.
  — Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 1 Mar. 2025
• My dad’s dosas were perfection—paper-thin, lacey, crispy, filling.
  — Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 1 Mar. 2025
• After the dumplings are placed into bamboo baskets and steamed, the broth melts, forming a rich, fatty soup within a pliant, paper-thin wheat skin.
  — Tiffany May, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Ortega and Keoghan do their best with the paper-thin material, but there's a hollowness front and center of this film.
  — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 May 2025
• This white long-sleeve top may be simple, but it’s guaranteed to become your new favorite base since it’s made from a soft and stretchy cotton blend that’s gentle against the skin and not paper-thin.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025
• The crabs — almost always domestic blue crabs — molt their hard outer shells in the spring, leaving them with paper-thin exoskeletons.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• When Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia in 2000, his legitimacy was paper-thin.
  — Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
• Don’t miss the paper-thin zucchini and aubergine tower, stacked high over saganaki cheese and finished tableside with wild thyme honey.
  — Lela London, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
• And yet, for all the witty, effervescent charm of the game itself, Astro Bot is a paper-thin protagonist even by the standard’s of the mascot platformer.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
• And, of course, the burek: the restaurant’s signature is squeeze-your-shoulder comfort with a crust that crackles into a flurry of buttery, paper-thin phyllo.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
• But her character's scenes were paper-thin compared to this season's other, meatier arcs.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
• However, it's crafted of lightweight, paper-thin nylon filled with pillowy down that could serve you on the mountain, finished with a high neck and snap closures to conceal the front zipper.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
• The paper-thin plot is just enough to keep this episode plodding from scene to scene, and despite being based around a hostage situation, the stakes never feel particularly high.
  — WIRED, 21 June 2023
• Making large amounts of paper-thin slices or an ultra-tiny brunoise cut, for example, can be awfully hard for anybody without a ton of practice.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
• Some players like paper-thin picks and others prefer chunky monkeys.
  — New Atlas, 19 Jan. 2026