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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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paper-thin slices of raw beef
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The walls in this apartment are paper-thin ; I can hear everything they're saying next door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the early 1950s the claim that agriculture saved valuable foreign exchange was already paper-thin .
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Her sophistication was paper-thin , and underneath she was just a very young, and probably over-protected, girl.
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Lunch is a sparse plate of sandwiches with salmon paste or paper-thin processed turkey roll.
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Slice the ginger paper-thin and scatter it, along with the onion slices, over the fish.
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Suddenly, hideously, the world had become a mask - a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world.
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The wrinkled skin was stretched tightly over the bones, paper-thin , blue-shadowed over pink crêpe.
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This is made of paper-thin material pierced by a number of small lenses.
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With his brother he invented a paper-thin malt flavoured toasted flake of maize - the Corn Flake.